[Lazarus] SynEdit: AutoIndent with Tabs instead of spaces, is this possible?

[Martin]

On 24/09/2012 18:21, Bernd wrote:
> I cannot find any way to convince SynEdit to indent the next line with
> a tab when I press enter on an indented line, it will always use
> spaces, even if eoTabsToSpaces is false and eoTabIndent is true and
> the previous line is intended with a Tab. Pressing Tab to indent works
> as expected but not the AutoIndent. I need to edit Makefile templates,
> they may not be indented with spaces or it will be a syntax error. The
> only way I have found is to disable AutoIndent completely or do a
> string replace after editing.
>
Assuming you talk about the real auto indent. Not the new codetool smart 
indent (that can add extra indent, after a begin)

You can select 1 of the 3
"spaces"
"space/tab" as previous line
"pos only"

press F1 the wiki describes them.

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in short, tabs yes, IF the current line is also indented by tabs. Then 
the tabs of the current lines are copied