Tab stops in typescript - do not expand as spaces

[Brian Lewis]

In VS you can set the handling of tabs for each file type. VS will expand the tab to the number of spaces you specify when the file is displayed. So it doesn't matter what tab size you specify, the file will look nicely indented - EXCEPT: -- you use the VS option to replace tabs with spaces.

This will cause inconsistent indentations when reading the file with any other default tab stop - in particular, you'll see strange behaviour when the file is displayed in SourceTree

RECOMMENDATION:

For all file types: Use Keep Tabs option as shown below

[Ghislain Hachey]

@softwords there is nothing "shown below" Is this a VS settings we should all use?

[Brian Lewis]

Screen shot of Tools => Options = > Text Editor settings in VS2017.

If we all always use tabs rather than spaces to control indenting, then files will look OK even when rendered with a different tab expansion.

[Ghislain Hachey]

Documented in developer guide