Brackets: Set options for Tabs/Spaces on a per-extension basis

[nibblesnbits]

I work a lot in Node/Express and it is becoming quite a pain to keep getting the "use tabs or spaces, not both" error in every .jade file I use. It's very nice to have the Tabs/Spaces option in the bottom of the editor, but it's becoming a pain to have to set the option every time I change files. Would it be possible to add an option (maybe in brackets.json) to determine whether a specific extension uses tabs or spaces and how many spaces that is?

[redmunds]

Yes, this just became possible in Sprint 37 with the new preferences improvements using the "path" setting. Create a .brackets.json file and put it in the root of your project. Below is a sample project prefs file that uses different indent and word wrapping for different file extensions:

{
    "defaultExtension": "js",
    "path": {
        "*.htm": {
            "spaceUnits": 2
        },
        "*.html": {
            "spaceUnits": 2
        },
        "*.xml": {
            "spaceUnits": 2
        },
        "*.php": {
            "spaceUnits": 2
        },
        "*.txt": {
            "spaceUnits": 2,
            "wordWrap": true
        }
    },
    "wordWrap": false,
    "spaceUnits": 4,
    "useTabChar": true,
    "smartIndent": true,
    "softTabs": true
}

Note that "path" currently only works in project prefs files, not in global brackets.json prefs file -- we should be adding that soon.

[peterflynn]

Note: for more details, see the documentation here: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/How-to-Use-Brackets#preferences

[lkcampbell]

@dangoor, seems like this issue is already addressed, unless we are thinking about adding programming language specific preferences.

[TomMalbran]

This already works and/or is a dupe of https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/6558.

[dangoor]

Yes, this works today as described by Randy