How can I use tabs for indentation in IntelliJ IDEA

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How can I use tabs instead of multiple spaces for indentation in IntelliJ IDEA 11 0   I have  Use tab character  checked under  Code Style     General     Default Indent Options   And also tried to have  Smart tabs  checked  but it doesn t help   From the documentation      If this check box is selected  tab characters are used          On pressing the Tab key   For indentation   For code reformatting         Otherwise  spaces are used instead of tabs

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Another useful option in IDEA to switch off or keep checked if you really need that:

Preferences -> Code Style -> Detect and use existing file indents for editing

if your team is going to switch to tab formatting with existing code written with spaces, uncheck that

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I have started using IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition version 12 1 3 and I found the setting in the following  place  -  File  gt  Other Settings  gt  Default Settings  gt   choose from Code Style dropdown

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My Intellij version is 13 4 1  Intellij IDEA- gt Perference- gt Code Style Project Setting

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For those who are having trouble indenting phpstorm here I have a tip and I hope they help     First you have to go to file- gt  settings- gt  keymap- gt  select- gt  windows    If they are on the windows machine  If you are on mac and choose macos

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IntelliJ IDEA 15  Only for the current file  You have the following options    Ctrl   Shift   A   write  tabs    double click on  To Tabs     If you want to convert tabs to spaces  you can write  spaces   then choose  To Spaces   Edit   Convert Indents   To Tabs  To convert tabs to spaces  you can chose  To Spaces  from the same place    For all files  The paths in the other answers were changed a little    File   Settings      Editor   Code Style   Java   Tabs and Indents   Use tab character  File   Other Settings   Default Settings      Editor   Code Style   Java   Tabs and Indents   Use tab character File   Settings      Editor   Code Style   Detect and use existing file indents for editing File   Other Settings   Default Settings      Editor   Code Style   Detect and use existing file indents for editing   It seems that it doesn t matter if you check uncheck the box from Settings    or from Other Settings   Default Settings     because the change from one window will be available in the other window   The changes above will be applied for the new files  but if you want to change spaces to tabs in an existing file  then you should format the file by pressing Ctrl   Alt   L

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For anyone not able to get this  another thing you need to uncheck the following as well  Preferences  gt  Editor  gt  Code Style    Enable EditorConfig support EditorConfig may override the IDE code style settings   My IntelliJ version 15 0 4

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Have you tried  editorconfig  You can create this file in the root of your project and configure indentation for different file types  Your code will be automatically formatted  Here s the example     top-most EditorConfig file root   true    matches all files     indent style   tab indent size   4    only json    json  indent style   space indent size   2

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To expand on  Dmitiri Algazin  s answer  settings for individual languages are overridden by the general setting  Preferences - gt  Code Style - gt  Detect and use existing file indents for editing   So if you are wondering why your new settings are being ignored after changing your settings for a specific language  there is a chance this checkbox is ticked   As a side note  changing any default settings automamagically creates a settings profile clone  i e  Default 1   which I assume is in place so that the default IDE settings are never overwritten    It is a little confusing at first  really  whether editing Default settings or Project Settings is going to have any effect on your project  since you can select Default from the drop down menu and then edit from there    If you don t want to keep seeing random clones of Default populating your settings profiles  edit the Project Settings directly

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File   Settings   Editor   Code Style   Java   Tabs and Indents   Use tab character  Substitute weapon of choice for Java as required

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