Tab button in insert mode

[adiosocelote]

In the last version of Helix, tab button was changed to go to the next word. Before, my tab button was to add spaces before a word, so from "word" I could do " word" with just one tab. Now it is impossible to do it anymore, and "indent" command only indents the whole line, not from the point where your cursor is. I have assigned my tab button to "no_op", but this causes tab to not do anything at all. Also, tab works as I want it to in my shell - adds spaces before the cursor location, so this is clearly a Helix issue.

This really makes me want to quit using Helix, honestly. Having to spam space bar multiple times to indent a word is annoying, and I couldn't find a hack to bring back the old behavior.

Version: helix 23.10, Linux, installed from Pacman.

[0x61nas]

this's because the smart tab was enabled by default. You can disable it via :set smart-tab.enable false or via [editor.smart-tab] section in the config file.

[tmacychen]

With the default bindings, to explicitly insert a tab character, press Shift-tab. from: https://docs.helix-editor.com/editor.html#editorsmart-tab-section