title: SublimeText 3 - Nothing works to force indentation to 4 spaces
body: <h2>Issue:</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Can't set/change tab indentation in documents</li>
  </ul>
  
  <hr>
  
  <h2>Have tried:</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li>With document open: >Indentation >Tab width: 4</li>
  <li>With document open: >Indentation >Convert Indentation to Spaces</li>
  <li><p>Adding the following to user settings:</p>
  
  <p><code>"smart_indent": true,
  "tab_size": 4,
  "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
  "trim_automatic_white_space": true,
  "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
  "use_tab_stops": true,
  "word_wrap": false
  </code></p></li>
  <li><p>Adding the following to the php-specific preferences:</p>
  
  <p><code>"tab_size": 4,
  "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true</code></p></li>
  </ul>
  
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  <h2>Questions:</h2>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Does it seem weird that changing the spaces from the menu doesn't even work? SublimeText states that the tab indentation is 4 spaces - but it's not.</li>
  <li>Does anyone know how to force SublimeText to apply a tab indentation to a document or to a project?</li>
  </ol>
  
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  <h2>Update:</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li>It looks as if ST3 is not recognising some spaces as indentation and thinks they're just spaces - see image</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yjvvY.png" alt="Spaces not recognised as indentation"></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The above image is the result of converting spaces to tabs (the opposite of what I want) to see what ST3 thinks is indentation</li>
  <li>Does anyone know how to fix this besides going through every document
  and changing spacing on every single line?</li>
  </ul>