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I know which one I’d choose! To replace multiple and consecutive spaces with a single tab character, do the following:

Use one Find and Replace task to replace each instance of multiple space characters with a single tab character.

Use several Find and Replace tasks, which is a bit faster than doing it manually.

Manually replace the multiple space characters with tabs.

There are three ways to fix this problem: Yet every once in a while, I run across a document that uses multiple spaces instead of tabs to align text.

Word processing has been around for a long time, and the techniques seem ingrained in our psyche. Replacing multiple spaces with a tab can be a nightmare, unless you know this simple Find and Replace trick. Shift-TAB will outdent the block.Ĭommenting Code - You can use CTRL-K to comment a block of code (prepend with #) and Shift-CTRL-K to uncomment a block.īRUH Automation has a good video showing you how to set up SAMBA file sharing so that it’s easy to edit your configuration.yaml remotely.Quickly replace multiple space characters with a tab character Quickly Indenting/Outdenting - you can select a block of text in N++ and hit TAB to indent the entire block. When you open a YAML document, you may need to choose “YAML” under the “Language” menu to let it know that you’re editing a YAML doc. Uncheck the “use default value” and choose “replace by space”. Scroll down in the “Tab Settings” list to “yaml”. Go to Settings > Preferences and choose Tab Settings. N++ lets you make it so that when you hit TAB, it’ll insert the number of spaces you choose.

But you probably don’t want to turn off the tab character globally. Make N++ use spaces instead of tabs - tabs are going to break YAML parsing. Make N++ display whitespace - under View > Show Symbol, turn on “Show White Space and TAB” A few things that helped make it easier for me to edit YAML with Notepad++: