Content originally posted in LPCWare by CodeRedSupport on Thu Apr 29 07:23:34 MST 2010
Attached is a screenshot with "Show whitespace characters" ticked so that you can see what is going on.
On the first line, you can see a tab character (a small ">>") between each "fr". Then before I entered the second line, I ticked "Insert spaces for tabs". Thus on the second line you can see spaces characters (small dots) between each "fr".
Note that if you switch between the two settings, it does not retrospectively change tabs and spaces over. The change only affects newly entered text.
Also note that if you change "Displayed tab width", this will change the display of text with actual tab characters in it. But it will not modify the display of code containing "spaces for tabs".
Regards,
CodeRedSupport