VSCode is inserting tabs in yaml instead of spaces

[danielo515]

Type: Bug

I tried changing all possible settings related to spaces/tabs and the specific ones for yaml, but VSCode keeps inserting tabs as indentation instread of spaces. This is very annoying because all the formatters that I've tried are not able to replace tabs by spaces, so I'm forced to do it manually. Even when copying from a yaml file that is correctly formatted into another yaml file that is in the same editor the spaces are converted to tabs, which is supper annoying.

VS Code version: Code 1.82.0 (8b617bd08fd9e3fc94d14adb8d358b56e3f72314, 2023-09-06T22:09:41.364Z) OS version: Darwin x64 22.6.0 Modes:

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[aeschli]

That's strange as for yaml we have configured to use spaces by default. That's part of the yaml extension settings. Can you share the example file?

[danielo515]

I don't think the file is anything special, but here it is:

on:
    push:
        branches:
            - master

permissions:
    contents: write
    pull-requests: write

name: Release
jobs:
    release:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        steps:
            - name: Checkout Repo
              uses: actions/checkout@v3

            - name: Install Dependencies
              run: npm ci

            - name: Build
              run: npm run build

            - name: Release Please
              uses: google-github-actions/release-please-action@v3
              id: release
              with:
                  command: manifest
                  token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
            - name: Upload Release Assets
              if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
              env:
                  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
                  TAG_NAME: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
              run: |
                  gh release upload $TAG_NAME main.js manifest.json styles.css

Here is also a video showing the issue:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/assets/2270425/4b92ff82-5ebe-4ae5-b6da-fab4637501a7

It is detecting the schema as github actions yaml, not sure if that is making a difference. I also have prettier installed, but there should be no yaml formatter in hearth that does this, since tabs are forbidden in yaml.

[aeschli]

What I'd be interested to know is what the status bar indicates. Using your example it shows me Spaces: 2. Pressing enter on line 26 inserts spaces for me. If the status bar shows Tabs, this is either what the editor detected based on the whitespaces in the editor, or a setting that overrides the default. Extensions can override the default, so please test with no extensions and all settings disabled. The easiest to to do that is to create a new (temporary) settings profile

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