HTML indent is always space ("soft tab")

[Rudxain]

Project .editorconfig (not global)

root = true

[*]
charset = UTF-8
end_of_line = lf
indent_style = tab
indent_size = 4
insert_final_newline = false
trim_trailing_whitespace = true

EC was never honored by helix nor the LSP.

~/.config/helix/languages.toml

[[language]]
name = "html"
indent = { tab-width = 4, unit = "\t" }

This is partially honored. tab-width works, but unit is ignored (defaults to " ")

LSP: vscode-langservers-extracted

Should I open an issue?

[the-mikedavis]

EditorConfig isn't supported, see #279

I can't reproduce on a fresh HTML file with that languages.toml entry. We try to determine the indent settings based on how the file is currently indented so if it's currently using spaces then we may assume a space indent unit

[Rudxain]

Thanks for the info. I'll close this now.

It seems the indent-detector persists the indent-style while the buffer is open. Closing the buffer, removing all indents, then opening the file, then saving, does auto-fmt with the new config