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    • Frosty126F
      Frosty126
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      Whenever I try to tab in a python document, it instead places 4 spaces.
      I know that spaces can be used instead of tabs but that is what I am accustomed to using.
      What I am asking, is how to make notepad++ tab with the TAB character and not spaces

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Frosty126
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        @felix-vincent

        Settings > Preferences > Language has the tab settings, both globally and on a per-language basis (so you would want to change the Python tab setting if you only want to affect Python source code tabs)

        https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#language

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Frosty126
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          @felix-vincent

          Think hard about doing such a thing.
          Industry recommended standard for Python is spaces, not tab characters.

          If you really want to do it, here’s the UI for changing it that Peter referenced; you’d untick the Replace by space box:

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          • Frosty126F
            Frosty126 @Alan Kilborn
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            @alan-kilborn I have thought hard, I just hate indenting with spaces

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