In this thread
http://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/code_composer_studio/f/81/p/105368/373606.aspx#373606
it shows how to create a new style to force the editor to insert spaces instead of tabs. In v6 though, the preferences seems to have changed and I can't seem to find the right place, Code Style doesn't look the same:
Where did the "named" code style go?
Mike
Hi Mike,
I can't see your attachment but is the below what you are looking for?
Best Regards,
Lisa
This post was very helpful to me. I want to support it by showing a screenshot of the dialog that people need to edit, from CCS v6.
Mike Stich said:Well, I found it. In preferences, C/C++ -> Code Style -> Formatter
Not sure how I missed it before. I found it by right clicking in the editor and selecting preferences in the context menu that appeared. Formatter was under the Code Style menu then. I could swear it wasn't there when I looked yesterday by going Window->Preferences directly, but it is now.
Mike
Mike,
The problem you had finding that particular item item is that it isn't usually visible. What I think is happening is that setting the tab indentation via Window->Preferences->General->Editors->Text_Editors here:
is overridden by the Formatter settings: "Sure, I'll insert your tabs. As spaces. And then I'll re-format right over top of them to Make Things Look Neat." And it's tricky to find the Formatter settings, as you discovered -- even with the help of this and some other threads it has taken me several days of intermittent frustration and searching to figure it out. Here's how to get to the second set of tabbing options... for CCSv6.1.0.00104, anyway; YMMV for any other version:
Starting from Window->Preferences:
In order to see the C/C++ option, you need to click on Show advanced settings, at which point things look like this:
Oh, look! There it is! <grin>
Now find the Formatter settings and click on the [Edit] button:
You want to change the values in the Indentation_size: and Tab_size: options which -- depending on your screen size -- may be hard to see:
Scrolling things a bit shows the field value box:
Change the values in those two boxes to be consistent with what you set on the other page and tabbing and re-formatting (e.g. automatic indentation) should work "as expected".
Unless CCSv6.2 adds some new tab-related field, of course, at which point we'll all be on our own again. <grin>
Hope this helps the next person who wants Something Other Than 4-Space Tabs.
Frank McKenney, McKenney Associates
