Replace spaces with tabs using Eclipse

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Joshua Hyatt picture Joshua Hyatt · Mar 6, 2014 · Viewed 83.7k times · Source

I downloaded some code from the Internet, and the four-space indentation is bugging the crap out of me. I tried to do a find and replace for "<4 spaces>" and replace it with "\t", but that just replaced all sets of spaces with the string "\t". How would I put a tab in the "replace" box?

Answer

Kohei Mikami picture Kohei Mikami · Mar 6, 2014
  1. Open Window->Preferences from menu bar.
  2. Select Text Editors from tree menu.
  3. Uncheck Insert spaces for tabs.

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After that, run Format menu from context menu and save the file:

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