Indentation Size Setting

Sublime Text 3 Plugin To Add Indentation Size Setting

Synopsis

This plugin gives Sublime Text the ability to have different settings for tab width, indent size, indent type (spaces vs. tabs), so it correctly displays and properly indent old code, as requested in https://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15922.

Some codebases have indentation requirements that are unusual by today's standards, meaning they require Tab characters to be 8 spaces wide, but indentations to be 4 spaces.

This creates a problem with Sublime Text because while we can set the “tab_size” parameter to 8, it then causes all tab key presses to use 8 spaces as well. This is my attempt at resolving this issue. I decided to put this out there because from reading the forums and the userecho site for Sublime Text, there are at least a few other people out there in my shoes.

This plugin was inspired by Vimdentation (https://github.com/Wintaru/Vimdentation) but it has been tweaked and improved so it's more cleanly and transparently integrated with Sublime Text.

Installation

With the Package Control plugin: The easiest way to install IndentSize is through Package Control, which can be found at this site: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

Once you install Package Control, restart Sublime Text and bring up the Command Palette (Command+Shift+P on OS X, Control+Shift+P on Linux/Windows). Select “Package Control: Install Package”, wait while Package Control fetches the latest package list, then select IndentSize when the list appears. The advantage of using this method is that Package Control will automatically keep IndentSize up to date with the latest version.

Without Git: Download the latest source from GitHub and copy the whole directory into the Packages directory.

With Git: Clone the repository in your Sublime Text Packages directory, located somewhere in user's “Home” directory (Preferences -> Browse Packages…):

git clone git://github.com/Kronuz/IndentSize.git

Configuration

One configuration option is available: indent_size; which defaults to tab_size, effectively disabling the plugin.

In my case, I have the following in my Syntax Specific settings for C/C++:

{
    "tab_size": 8,
    "indent_size": 4,
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": false,
    "detect_indentation": false
}

License

Copyright (c) 2015 by German M. Bravo (Kronuz)

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