Scott, I’ve needed to address this issue before, myself. My solution was to subclass QPlainTextEdit and override QPlainTextEdit::keyPressEvent. In it, if QKeyEvent::key matches Qt::Key_Tab, I insert the desired number of spaces in place of a tab and accept the event (QEvent::accept).
If you don’t want to subclass QPlainTextEdit, I believe you should be able to create an object to install as an event filter on the editor. In it, you would compare the QEvent::type to QEvent::KeyPress and handle the logic in a similar fashion. That’s based on my limited Qt experience, so take that with a grain of salt. I hope that helps. Adam Thompson Computer Scientist, Nuclear Engineering Oak Ridge National Laboratory +1.865.241.8062 From: Interest <interest-bounces+thompsonab=ornl....@qt-project.org> on behalf of Scott Aron Bloom <sc...@towel42.com> Date: Friday, September 9, 2016 at 12:11 PM To: "interest@qt-project.org" <interest@qt-project.org> Subject: [Interest] QPlainTextEdit insert spaces vs tabs I have a request that has come in from a customer, and for the life of me I cant find the option. The customer would like to be able to insert spaces rather than tabs when editing a document, the editor has been implemented using QPlainTextEdit. I can change the tabstop, and have looked through the QTextDocument options as well… Any ideas? Scott
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