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As part of the process of becoming a netbeans contributor, I discovered that there is a preference for spaces rather than tabs. However, my system preference (and indeed the NetBeans default) is to favour tabs over spaces. I would like to suggest that the wonderful "Project Formatting" feature of Netbeans be taken advantage of in order to enforce this rule... other deviations from the Netbeans defaults can also be incorporated.
Created attachment 79935 [details] use project formatting options for tabs/spaces in java.editor and java.hints
Can apisupport.project define a default code style for all nb.org modules? Ideally it would be possible to put something in project lookup. Defining properties like those in the patch for all ~850 modules is out of the question.
> Can apisupport.project define a default code style for all nb.org modules? Ideally it would be possible to put something > in project lookup. I'd need some more background on this, e.g. starting points on what API to implement or so. I've taken a look at java.project and java.editor and found nothing helpful regarding custom formatting (besides per-project formatting that should work in apisupport projectS in the same way as in J2SE projects.