Question

I can’t seem to get the Sublime Text 2 SublimeLinter package to stop showing the “Mixed tabs and spaces” warning.

I’ve set “smarttabs” : true in the settings, but it’s still not taking.

Has anyone else solved this problem yet?

Here’s my user settings for the SublimeLinter package: https://gist.github.com/3737558

Thanks.

Answer 1

I solve the problem like this.

First do not use mix tabs and spaces in the files. Use spaces only. Sublime can finely handle the indentation without a hard tab character.

Setup Sublime Text 2 to use spaces only:

// Tab and whitespace handling.
// Indent using spaces, 4 spaces ber indent by default, clean up extra whitespaces on save
"tab_size": 4,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
"trim_automatic_white_space": true,
"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,

// Do not try to detect the tab size from the opened file
"detect_indentation" : false,

If you encounter any old files with mixed tabs and spaces you can convert them to spaces only from View > Indentation > Convert tabs to spaces menu.

Why tab character is bad in your source code

• http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/05/13/never-use-hard-tabs/