helix defaults to 2 spaces for indentation

[soupfoo]

How to change tab size to 4 spaces ? Helix seems to default to 2 spaces for indentation.
I don't want to run :indent-style 4 every time I open the editor. Is there any parameter to put in ~/.config/helix/config.toml ?

[soupfoo]

It does follow the indentation properly once I save the file with the desired indentation.

[erasin]

Helix will detect the indentation used in the file, or otherwise defaults to the language indentation configured in languages.toml, with a fallback to tabs if it isn't specified. Line ending is likewise auto-detected, and will remain unchanged if no line endings were detected.

Set Config with ~/.config/helix/languages.toml , like config of javascript language

[[language]]
name = "javascript"
indent = { tab-width = 4, unit = "    " }

[soupfoo]

ohh ! 😮
thank you !

[haasn]

How do I change the default indentation style for empty files? :lang just reports text. I tried adding it to languages.toml but it doesn't work:

[[language]]
name = "text"
indent = { tab-width = 4, unit = "    " }

Failed to parse language config: missing field `scope`
in `language`

Press <ENTER> to continue with default language config

[Axlefublr]

yeah I want to set the tab width to 3 and unit to a tab, to act as my default for files that are text. trying to set the configuration for text doesn't work

[nieuemma]

Searching on how to set my tab width, I found this discussion and would like to add that using the line
indent = { tab-width = 4, unit = " " }
without setting a [[language]] section seems to have set it globally, which is what I had hoped for.

[jakobjpeters]

@nieuemma Is this placed at the top of languages.toml? It's not working for me.

[nieuemma]

Trying it now it doesn't seem to work the way I did it before. Not sure if I was imagining it or not. Apologies.

[jakobjpeters]

Thank you for checking!