Convert Automatically Spaces to Tabs in Visual Studio Code

Question

I have a file in Visual Studio Code in which I use only tabs for indentation. When I copy the contents of that file somewhere else and edit them, then when I paste them back all tabs are gone and spaces have taken their places.

How can I prevent the use of spaces for indentation and automatically spaces will be converted to tabs?

Also I have changed the preferences:

"editor.insertSpaces": false,
"editor.detectIndentation": false,

Sabucodonozorr · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-05 20:37:55Z

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Unfortunately you can't (yet). I think it would be nice to get spaces/tabs converted upon file opening - like some editors do. You can quickly convert spaces by tabs by selecting the number of indentation spaces, pressing cmd+F2 in mac or ctrl-F2 in linux/windows (to find and select all occurrences of that amount of spaces), and then pressing tab key (only once). You can also give Untabfy (or Whitespacer) a try.

answered Aug 5, 2017 at 20:37

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