How to replace four spaces with a tab in Sublime Text 2

Question

I want to replace all the  four spaces  that is written by another text editor with tabs  How can I do it

User · Answer

To configure Sublime to always use tabs try the adding the following to preferences->settings-user:

{
    "tab_size": 4,
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": false
}

More information here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/indentation.html

User · Answer

You could add easy key binding   Preference   Key binding - user             keys     super l     command    reindent        Now select the line or file and hit  command   l

User · Answer

Select all  then   Windows   Linux   Ctrl Shift p  then type  indent     Mac   Shift Command p  then type  indent

User · Answer

Do a regex  Search  for  t  backslash-t  a tab   and replace with four spaces   Either the main menu  or lower-right status-bar spacing menu does the same thing  with less work

User · Answer

If you want to recursively apply this change to all files in a directoy  you can use the Find   Find in Files    modal     Edit I didn t highlight it in the image  but you have to click the    button on the left to have Sublime interpret the Find field as a regex  Edit  Edit 2 I neglected to add a start of string anchor to the regex  I m correcting that below  and will update the image when I get a chance  Edit  The regex in the Find field     S t n r  4  will match white space characters in groups of 4  excluding tabs and newline characters   The replace field  t indicates you would like to replace them with tabs   If you click the button to the right of the Where field  you ll see options that will help you target your search  replace  Add Folder option will let you select the folder you d like to recursively search from  The Add Include Filter option will let you restrict the search to files of a certain extension

User · Answer

create a keybinding for quickest way      keys     super alt t     command    unexpand tabs    args      set translate tabs   true       add this to Preferences   Key Bindings  user  when you press super alt t it will convert spaces to tabs

User · Answer

On main menu   View - gt  Indentation - gt  Convert Indentation to Tabs   Spaces

User · Answer

Bottom right hand corner on the status bar  click Spaces  N  or Tab Width  N  where N is an integer   ensure it says Tab Width  4 for converting from four spaces  and then select Convert Indentation to Tabs from the contextual menu that will appear from the initial click   Similarly  if you want to do the opposite  click the Spaces or Tab Width text on the status bar and select from the same menu

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