Sublime Text 3 convert spaces to tabs

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I know there are a lot of posts about this  but I couldn  t get it to work  I use tabs for coding  Is there a way  to convert always spaces to tabs  I e  on open and on Save files  Anyone got an idea      edit  My desire is to do this automatically  -  open  save or on the fly Does anyone know how to do   I tried this   import sublime  sublime plugin  os  class ExpandTabsOnSave sublime plugin EventListener       Run ST s  expand tabs  command when saving a file   def on pre save self  view       if view settings   get  expand tabs on save      1        view window   run command  expand tabs     And here are my user Settings          auto complete selector    source - comment  meta tag - punctuation definition tag begin        auto indent   true       detect indentation   true       draw white space    all        ensure newline at eof on save   true       expand tabs on save   true       font face    SourceCodePro-Regular        font size   10       format on save   true       ignored packages                  Vintage              indent to bracket   true       open files in new window   false       smart indent   true       tab size   4       translate tabs to spaces   false       trim automatic white space   true       trim trailing white space on save   true       use tab stops   false       word wrap   false

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Here is how you to do it automatically on save: https://coderwall.com/p/zvyg7a/convert-tabs-to-spaces-on-file-save

Unfortunately the package is not working when you install it from the Package Manager.

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if you have Mac just use help option  usually the last option on Mac s menu bar  then type   tab indentation  and choose a tab indentation width  but generally  you can follow this path  view -  indentation

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On the bottom right-hand corner of your Sublime Text window  you ll see an indentation indicator that looks a lot like this     Clicking it will open a menu with options to adjust your indentation preferences  and more importantly  Convert Indentation to Tabs Spaces     The same menu is listed under View - gt  Indentation

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To automatically convert spaces to tabs on save  add the following Python script to a newly created subfolder called  UnexpandTabsOnSave  within   SUBLIME HOME  Packages     import sublime  sublime plugin  os  class ConvertSpacesToTabsOnSave  sublime plugin EventListener        Run Sublime s  unexpand tabs  command when saving any file   def on pre save  self  view        view window   run command   unexpand tabs      Thank you for the initial resource

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You can do replace tabs with spaces in all project files by    Doing a Replace all Ctrl Shif F Set regex search   A      Set directory to Your dir Replace by  1   This will cause all project files to be opened  with their buffer marked as dirty  With this  you can now optionally enable these next Sublime Text settings  to trim all files trailing white space and ensure a new line at the end of every file    You can enabled these settings by going on the menu Preferences - gt  Settings and adding these contents to your settings file     ensure newline at eof on save   true   trim trailing white space on save   true   Open the Sublime Text console  by going on the menu View - gt  Show Console  Ctrl    and run the command  import threading  threading Thread  args  set      target lambda counterset     view run command   expand tabs     set translate tabs   True     print   Processing    gt 5  view of    gt 5   view id        format  len  counterset     1  len  window views      view id       Finished converting   if len  counterset    gt  len  window views     - 2 else           counterset add  len  counterset       for view in window views       start   Now  save all changed files by going to the menu File - gt  Save All

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As you might already know  you can customize your indention settings in Preferences sublime-settings  for example    detect indentation   true   tab size   4   translate tabs to spaces   false   This will set your editor to use tabs that are 4 spaces wide and will override the default behavior that causes Sublime to match the indention of whatever file you re editing  With these settings  re-indenting the file will cause any spaces to be replaced with tabs   As far as automatically re-indenting when opening a file  that s not quite as easy  but probably isn t a great idea since whitespace changes wreak havoc on file diffs   What might be a better course of action  you can map a shortcut for re-indention and just trigger that when you open a new file that needs fixing

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Here is a solution that will automatically convert to tabs whenever you open a file   Create this file      Packages User on file load py   import sublime import sublime plugin  class OnFileLoadEventListener sublime plugin EventListener        def on load async self  view           view run command  unexpand tabs     NOTE  It causes the file to be in an unsaved state after opening it  even if no actual space-to-tab conversion took place    maybe some can help with a fix for that

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At the bottom of the Sublime window  you ll see something representing your tab space setting   You ll then get a dropdown with a bunch of options  The options you care about are    Convert Indentation to Spaces Convert Indentation to Tabs   Apply your desired setting to the entire document   Hope this helps

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Use the following command to get it solved    autopep8 -i  lt filename gt  py

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You can use the command palette to solve this issue   Step 1  Ctrl   Shift   P  to activate the command palette   Step 2  Type  Indentation   Choose  Indentation  Convert to Tabs

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In my case  this line solved the problem    translate tabs to spaces   false

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