Fix Tab Size

Obsidian has an Indent visual width setting, and then ignores it whenever you indent with spaces: turn Indent using tabs off, set the width to 2 or 8, and pressing Tab still inserts exactly four spaces. The setting is honoured for real tab characters and hardcoded for spaces.

This plugin makes one indent insert the number of spaces you actually set, so the indentation you get is the indentation you chose. If you indent with tabs, Obsidian already draws them at your configured width and this plugin has nothing to do.

Reported on the forum.

More screenshots

Demo vault

The documentation is a demo vault. The feature has a note that explains what it does and why you would want it, with buttons that set both editor settings for you so you can press Tab and count the spaces.

Start reading here — it is plain markdown, so it works on GitHub with nothing installed.

A copy of the vault ships with every release. You can access it via any of the following:

1. Running the Fix Tab Size: Open demo vault command.
2. Downloading fix-tab-size-demo-vault.zip from the Releases. It unzips into a single fix-tab-size-demo-vault-<version> folder.
3. Browsing its source in demo-vault/ in this repository.

What it does

• A space indent is as wide as you configured, matching Indent visual width instead of Obsidian's hardcoded four. Applies while Indent using tabs is off; there is nothing to configure in the plugin itself. 01 Fix tab size

Installation

The plugin is available in the official Community Plugins repository.

Beta versions

To install the latest beta release of this plugin (regardless if it is available in the official Community Plugins repository or not), follow these steps:

1. Ensure you have the BRAT plugin installed and enabled.
2. Click Install via BRAT.
3. An Obsidian pop-up window should appear. In the window, click the Add plugin button once and wait a few seconds for the plugin to install.

Debugging

By default, debug messages for this plugin are hidden.

To show them, run the following command in the DevTools Console:

window.DEBUG.enable('fix-tab-size');

For more details, refer to the documentation.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in the CHANGELOG.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING to get set up.

Support

My other Obsidian resources

See my other Obsidian resources.

License

© Michael Naumov