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You can indent text with tab characters several ways:
When you press the TAB key, the insertion point moves to the next indent level. You can display (or hide) the tab symbols by selecting Advanced from the Edit menu, and then selecting View Whitespace.
You can also use Auto Indent (without Smart Indent) to automatically indent new lines to match the previous line.
Change tab and indent settings
If you use Auto Indent (with Smart Indent enabled), the Text editor automatically indents the text based on the context of the previous lines.
Backspacing over a tab character deletes that tab character, regardless of the indent setting.
If you select the Insert spaces option, a tab character is not inserted, and only spaces are inserted to reach the next indent level.
Note The File type box on the Tabs tab contains a list of file types. The initial tab settings for each file you load are assigned based on the file extension and the setting of this box. You can use the Tab size and Indent size boxes on the Tabs tab or on the Source File Properties page to specify individual settings for these two fields on a per-file basis, as needed.
To change tab and indent settings
–or–
Select the Insert spaces option to use spaces as specified in the Tab size box.
To display or hide tab symbols
Spaces are displayed as dots and tab symbols are displayed as >>
whenever they appear in a source file.
Note The LineUnindent command only returns to previous tab stops.