Is there any way to persuade Eclipse to use tabs instead of spaces for indenting its built-in Java content assist proposals (such as when creating an empty method which overrides a method in the parent class)?
The only setting I could find that looked relevant is in Windows/Preferences/General/Editors/Text Editors/Insert spaces for tabs, and this setting is unchecked.
(EDIT: Several posters have pointed out Java / Code Style / Formatter / Indentation / Tab policy, which is set to "Tabs only")
At the moment I have to remember to select them and re-format with <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<F>.
It seems to be currently a bug (not fixed in the 3.5 train):
bug 44755 (for comments, but also valid for other refactoring JDT operations)
Also linked to bug 231832, involving a bug in the AST rewrite...
I believe this is a problem with
ASTRewrite, not with the client ofASTRewrite. We have to make sure that code formatter settings are available for the rewrite part.
Moving toJDT/Corefor investigation.
Detected in late 3.4, still not fixed in 3.5