How to fix convert space indentation in Sublime Text

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Example  If I have a document with 2 space indentation  and I want it to have 4 space indentation  how do I automatically convert it by using the Sublime Text editor

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Here s a neat trick in Sublime Text 2 or 3 to convert your indentation spacing in a document   TL DR   Converting from 2 spaces to 4 spaces   Ensure tab width is set to 2  Convert your 2-space indentation to tabs  switch to tab width 4  and then convert the indentation back to spaces   The detailed description   Go to   View - gt  Indentation  It should read    Indent using spaces  x  Tab width  2   Select    Convert Indentation to Tabs   Then Select    Tab width  4 Convert Indentation to Spaces   Done

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While many of the suggestions work when converting 2 -  4 space  I ran into some issues when converting 4 -  2   Here s what I ended up using    Sublime Text 3 Packages User to-2 sublime-macro         args   null   command    select all          args      set translate tabs   true     command    unexpand tabs          args      setting    tab size    value   1     command    set setting          args      set translate tabs   true     command    expand tabs          args      setting    tab size    value   2     command    set setting

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I actually found it s better for my sanity to have user preferences to be defined like so    translate tabs to spaces   true   tab size   2   indent to bracket   true   detect indentation   false   The detect indentation  false is especially important  as it forces Sublime to honor these settings in every file  as opposed to the View -  Indentation settings     If you want to get fancy  you can also define a keyboard shortcut to automatically re-indent your code  YMMV  by pasting the following in Sublime -  Preferences -  Key Binding - User          keys     ctrl i     command    reindent        and to visualize the whitespace    indent guide options     draw active     trim trailing white space on save   true   ensure newline at eof on save   true   draw white space    all    rulers    120

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You have to add this code to your custom key bindings       keys     ctrl f12     command    set setting    args     setting    tab size    value   4      by pressing ctrl f12  it will reindent your file to a tab size of 4  if you want a different tab size  you just change the  value  number  Te format is a simple json

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I wrote a plugin for it  You can find it here or look for  ReIndent  in package control  It mostly does the same thing as Kyle Finley wrote but in a convenient way with shortcuts for converting between 2 and 4 and vice-versa

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The easiest thing i did was       changed my Indentation to Tabs   and it resolved my problem   You can do the same       to Spaces   as well as per your need   Mentioned the snapshot of the same

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If you find search and replace faster to use  you could use a regex replace like this   Find  regex       G   2   Instead of    2    lt space gt  2  you can just write two spaces  Used it here for clarity    Replace with 4 spaces  or whatever you want  like  t

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Recently I faced a similar problem  I was using the sublime editor  it s not an issue with the code but with the editor   Below change in the preference settings worked for me   Sublime Text menu -  Preferences -  Settings  Syntax-Specific          tab size   4       translate tabs to spaces   true

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I found  in my mind  a simpler solution than Magne   On mac    cmd f    gt       two spaces    gt   alt enter    gt   arrow right    gt       two more spaces    gt  set tab width to 4 this can be done before or after    On windows or other platforms change cmd f and alt enter with whatever your find and select all hotkeys are   Note  this method is prone to  errors  if you have more than one space within your code  It is thus less safe than Magne s method  but it is faster  for me at least

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I also followed Josh Frankel s advice and created a Sublime Macro   added key binding  The difference is that this script ensures that spacing is first set to tabs and set to a tab size of 2  The macro won t work if that s not the starting point  Here s a gist of the macro  https   gist github com drivelous aa8dc907de34efa3e462c65a96e05f09 In Mac  to use the macro   key binding   Create a file called spaces2to4 sublime-macro and copy paste the code from the gist  For me this is located at     Library Application  Support Sublime  Text  3 Packages User spaces2to4 sublime-macro   Select Sublime Text  gt  Preferences  gt  Key Bindings Add this command to the User specified sublime-keymap  it s in an array -- it may be empty           quot keys quot     quot super shift o quot         quot command quot    quot run macro file quot        quot args quot              quot file quot   quot Packages User spaces2to4 sublime-macro quot           Now     shift   o now automatically converts each file from 2 space indentation to 4  but will keep indenting if you run it further

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