Feature request: indents to space (from tabs)

[ghost]

I usually use tabs for indents but I like the file to save indents as spaces.

In PhpStorm there is an option to convert indent to spaces:

Is it possible to add this option in future releases? if we can also auto save tabs to spaces that would be even better

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Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Convert width of space indentation (#17802)
• Disable space converstion to tabs (#36632)
• Add support for mixed tab/spaces indentation (#5394)
• No way to have tab show as eight spaces, indent with something else (#32811)
• Default to tab indentation (#41999)

[ghost]

@tsalinger
any updates on this? thanks

[tsalinger]

Sorry for the late response.
I think this is already in the product: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_indentation:

Please let me know if this helps you.

[ghost]

@tsalinger
yeah I found that option, it is great.
can we automate this on save? so whenever I open a file which tabs are used as indents, convert them to spaces and save? or something that can be run on the entire project

[SerafimC]

I think if we implement this to save replacing indentation by spaces, this should be set up somewhere.

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