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Robo-EDIT automatically converts tab characters to spaces (Robo-FTP 3.9.x and previous)

This page was written for Robo-FTP 3.8. The steps may vary slightly from those below for earlier or later versions.

By default, the Robo-EDIT program automatically converts tab characters to spaces.

NOTE: Robo-EDIT no longer converts tabs to spaces as of Robo-FTP 3.10.0.

If your script logic requires the use of tab characters you can change the default behavior by following these steps:

1. Close all running instances of Robo-EDIT.
2. Open the Windows Registry Editor (regedit.exe)

3. Drill down to the Robo-EDIT key for the current version of Robo-FTP. The key will be named with the version number instead of x.x as shown in the examples below.

   32-bit Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Robo-FTP x.x\Robo-EDIT

   64-bit Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Robo-FTP x.x\Robo-EDIT

4. Change the value of use.tabs from 0 to 1
5. Close the Registry Editor and reopen Robo-EDIT
6. Press CTRL+Shift+8 to toggle "View Whitespace" on and off. Tab characters will appear as an arrow and spaces will appear as a dot.

Article last updated: 2021-12-01

Tags: Robo-Edit, tab