Change editor tab width in eclipse 3.5

Question

I am trying to adjust the width of the tabs from the window → Settings → General → Editors → Text Editors, where there is a field for “Tab Screen Width”. But no matter what I type in there, the indentation size when I start a new line in the Java file is 4. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Java files have a special place for editing this parameter. You need to go to

Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter

And edit the profile.

Answer 2

Changing the window → Settings → General → Editors → The settings of the Text Editors tab relate to text files, not Java files, as indicated here. You can create a text file in Eclipse and make sure that the size of your tab is really resized.

Answer 3

Check your Java-> Code Style-> Formatter settings to see if you use tabs or spaces; you can use spaces!

Answer 4

This parameter is replaced by Java to configure from code style formatting.

It can be found in Java / Code Style / Formatter (click "Edit") / Indent / Indent tab