my editor is replacing tabs with spaces and I want it to stop. To be clear, when I press tab the editor puts 2 spaces where the cursor is and I want it to put 1 tab because the current behavior is messing with the WordPress coding Standards. I have looked up about 1000 articles from google searches on how to fix this and nothing is working. Any ideas?

CodePudding user response：

You need to disable both of these settings:

Editor: Insert Spaces

// Insert spaces when pressing Tab. This setting is overridden based on the file contents when editor.detectIndentation is on.

and

Editor: Deteect Indentation

// Controls whether editor.tabSize# and #editor.insertSpaces will be automatically detected when a file is opened based on the file contents.