Improve tabulator expansion

[netbeansuser2019]

Description

If you press tabulator in value of text variables and enable expanding tab to spaces in Options -> Editor -> Formatting -> ... enable "Expand Tabs to Spaces" then number of spaces is not a same as for normal indention. That is probably bug, but I prefer to be there in "Option formatting" one more option to use escape sequence for tabulator if context enable.

Use case/motivation

It is even clear and more readable.

Related issues

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Are you willing to submit a pull request?

No

[homberghp]

Assuming you are using Java as a programming language, you might want to use text blocks and turn on View->Show Indent Guidelines. Then you can align your text to these guidelines and you can observe that tabbing works the same inside and outside text variables. The indent guides are only shown before the first non-space character.

Note that with text blocks, the white space inside the string is determined by the minimal indentation inside the block. See https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/18/text-blocks/index.html