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How to prevent tabs from being written as spaces?

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    stretchthebits
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    Hello,
    It seemed to work before.
    When I am working on a .h file or .cpp file, when I press on the tab key on the keyboard, it writes 4 white spaces.

    How can this be fixed? Why doesn’t it write a tab character?

    The Options dialog box seems to have been moved from the Tools menu to the Edit menu.

    OS: Kubuntu 22.04
    Qt Creator 10.0.0-beta2 (9.0.83)

    I think I had version 9.0 before.

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      Christian Ehrlicher
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      This is a simple setting in QtCreator: Settings -> C++ -> Code Style -> Edit -> General

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        This is a simple setting in QtCreator: Settings -> C++ -> Code Style -> Edit -> General

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        @Christian-Ehrlicher zzzzz.png

        is it suppose to be like this?
        It doesn't seem to have an effect.

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        • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

          This is a simple setting in QtCreator: Settings -> C++ -> Code Style -> Edit -> General

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          @Christian-Ehrlicher I used the Qt Maintenance tool to remove the preview version, (10.0.0-beta2 ) and now I am back to 9.0.2.

          Thank the lord. It is working now. I have my tabs back.

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            @Christian-Ehrlicher I used the Qt Maintenance tool to remove the preview version, (10.0.0-beta2 ) and now I am back to 9.0.2.

            Thank the lord. It is working now. I have my tabs back.

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            @stretchthebits
            Up to you but you might like to report this to ensure the forthcoming release has it right.

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              @Christian-Ehrlicher I used the Qt Maintenance tool to remove the preview version, (10.0.0-beta2 ) and now I am back to 9.0.2.

              Thank the lord. It is working now. I have my tabs back.

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              jsulm
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              @stretchthebits Change "Tabs Only" in "Tab policy" ro "Spaces Only".

              https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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                @stretchthebits Change "Tabs Only" in "Tab policy" ro "Spaces Only".

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                @jsulm I had it as Tabs only but that was for Qt Creator version 10....beta.
                So, I rolled back to the LTS version, 9.0.2 and it works fine.

                The GUI is ls also a bit confusing for me.
                There seems to be multiple locations where they have you configure this.
                If you change one place to tabs only, the other things stay as "spaces".

                I think I need a Qt Creator for dummies version.

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