Tab Columns Indent Columns

Criss wrote:
Could someone please explain me the difference between:
Configuration -> General -> Tab/Indent ->
Tab columns and Indent Columns

F.e. if I set Indent Columns to 2 (Tab Columns is 8) then Increase Line Indent always inserts a tab (8 characters) and not 2 characters.
(What I want to do ist to increase/decrease the line indent by only 2 characters without inserting tabs.)

Thanks
Criss

I am not sure exactly what you want to do. Tab is related to the TAB key on the keyboard, and Indent is usually related to automatic displacement of the cursor when Auto Indent is enabled.

To observe indent feature, in the Tab/Indent dialog box:

– “Enable Auto Indent” must be checked.
– “Begin Indent” and “End Indent” text boxes must be filled, for instance, { and }.

Then if you type, “line 1, {, line 2, line3, }, line4”, you will see

	line 1

	{

	 (indent)    line 2

	 (indent)    line 3

	}

	line 4

	

Sorry, I just don’t understand how to execute the auto indent in a file.
I’m mostly using PHP.
I checked “Auto indent”.
I set begin indent to {
I set end indent to }
I set end of statement to ;

But there’s no change in my php file. I guess there’s a button/menu option to execute it?

I just don’t know how to execute the auto indentation.

For reference, in Eclipse you mark all text you want to auto-indent and press Ctrl-alt-f, and it does the job for you. I’m guessing this is a similar feature.