Ok, after a little more investigation I think that I've got Visual Studio's handling of indent and tab sizes figured out. The indent size sets the tab stop, so there is a tab stop every 4 columns. The tab size seems to affect when an actual tab gets inserted as opposed to spaces.

If you just hit ...

So again I think the real question is what tab stops do you expect to see :?:


I want the tab stops to be at column 9, column 17, column 25, column 33, etc... but I sort of want the indenting to be independent of that. Basically I wan the indenting to work the way it does in Visual Studio. Here ...

It should not matter but do you have the tabs as space option off or on (i.e. are there tabs in the document or only spaces) :?:

I have the tabs as spaces option off, which is what I want (I want tabs in the document).


So if I setup zeus with an indent of 4 and tab size of 8 if I enter this ...

Hi,

I am currently evaluating ZeusEdit for use at my day job. At my day job there are code standards related to indenting that I can't get SmartIndenting to work with. If I set tab size to 8 and indent size to 4 I want SmartIndenting to work like this:

if( test_condition ) {
//Start of this line ...