Perl indent doesn't use space - eclipse

I am using Eclipse Luna. I have installed the Perl EPIC plugin. I want to indent 4 spaces instead of TAB.
I have checked Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Insert spaces for tabs, but still when there is need to auto indent a new line, Eclipse still indents with TAB instead of spaces.
How do I change it so EPIC will use spaces instead of tabs for indentation in Perl files?


Late answer but I ran into the same issue, found this post, and subsequently how to change the formatting settings for Perl EPIC in Eclipse.
From the main IDE workspace, click the Window menu and then choose Preferences.
Scroll down to Perl EPIC and expand it in the tree.
Click the Editor entry.
In the right panel under the Appearance tab, you can change your preferences for Insert tabs/spaces on indent and whether or not to use spaces instead of tabs.

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Indenting with tabs in eclipse

I have tried every suggestion I could find, but I can't get my code to get indented with tabs.
java -> code style -> formatter -> edit -> indentation -> "use spaces to indent wrapped lines" is unchecked and policy is set to tab only.
general -> editors -> text editors -> "insert spaces for tabs" is unchecked.
Still eclipse replaces my tabs with spaces and does auto-indentation with spaces.
I am slowly going insane
(eclipse luna)

The answer to my question can be found here : How can I get Eclipse to insert tabs instead of spaces for Java content assist?
It appears to be a bug in Eclipse, currently.

Aptana tab indentation guides

I recently moved from geany to Aptana as I'm working on some bigger projects and felt I would benefit from a full IDE.
One feature I'm really missing is the little grey line every four spaces to help me maintain indentation consistency. Does anything like this exist for Aptana/Eclipse?

get the PDT tools Indent Guide plugin

Under
Preferences -> General -> Editor -> Texteditor you can activate "Show whitespace characters". If you click on "whitespace characters", you can define, which character should be displayed. Here you can active "Tabs". It's not as good as the lines from Notepad++, but better than nothing.

You can set a print margin indicator (vertical line) in Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors - but this would only be a single line. You could use tabs instead of spaces - there are options to insert spaces when you use the Tab key. In this same menu, you can choose to show whitespace characters, which will help keep your spacing in order. I don't know of any grid options.

Cannot highlight all occurrences of a selected word in Eclipse

I tried using the Toggle mark occurrences (Alt + Shift + O) button and also in Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editor -> Annotations and setting the C/C++ Occurrences and C/C++ Write occurrences. But still when I select a word it won't highlight all occurrences of that specific word.
What I am using is Eclipse Indigo Service Release 2 in XP, with a C++ project.

You can try to activate Toggle Mark Occurrences with icon on Toolbar:

Preferences --> Java --> Editor --> Mark Occurrences

In General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations

Check out options that are checked in Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Mark occurrences. Then restart Eclipse.

Find the Preferences under Window,
In General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations(1)
(5) is to select the color and press apply.

The standard "Mark Occurrences" functionality included in Eclipse that everyone recommends only highlights identifiers in editors of whatever language. For example, it won't highlight int in C editors, and it won't help at all in the Console pane.
So if you want to highlight ALL occurrences on ANY word in ANY Eclipse pane (kinda like Notepad++ does), try the Glance plug-in for Eclipse.
As of November 2017 Glance works for Eclipse Neon and Oxygen. There was a period of time in which Neon was unsupported, and a fork appeared, but it seems unnecessary now (and abandoned).

There are two ways to highlight all occurences. First is using Eclipse options, which is not very reliable, because in many versions of Eclipse it is not supported.
Second is using a plugin called Glance which is available in Eclipse marketplace. This is supereasy and effective.
First Method
In the toolbar, there is button for Toggling Mark Occurrences. So, once you selected the text/word whose occurences you wish to highlight, then click this toggle button.
Let's say this step doesn't work for you. Then, Follow this step:
Goto: Window ==> Preferences ==> General ==> Editors ==> Text Editors ==> Annotations ==> On right Annotations types box: Occurrences ==> Select all check boxes.
You can also go to Window ==> Preferences ==> Java ==> Editor==> Mark Occurrences ==> Check all the checkboxes.
Restart Eclipse and check if highlighting works.
If still doesn't work, then Go to Second Method
Second Method
From Eclipse marketplace, install Glance. Once installed, restart Eclipse.
Now select any word in your eclipse editor
Move focus to component where you want to search
Open Glance using Ctrl + Cmd + F shortcut on Mac or Ctrl + Alt + F on other platforms
Enter text you want to search
Use Enter or **Shift + Enter** to find next/previous match
Close search box using Esc
You can also customize Glance from Window ==> Preferences ==> Glance

For Eclipse Mars:
Window --> Preferences --> Check (Mark occurrences of the selected element in the current file.)
As shown if figure:

Go
Java> Editor > Mark Occurrences
Uncheck "Keep Marks when the section changes" then click Ok
Restart Eclipse.
This work for me.

If you go into the window-prefrences, select the language you want/are working with. Select the editor under this specific language and then there is a mark occurrences there that has some options. Where it says keep marks when the selection changes, for me this was checked. When I unchecked it the system started highlighting correctly.

For folks who are using a dark background with light font colors, you may want to check out the highlight color in Preferences -> General -> Editors -> Text Editor -> Annotations. Mine was defaulted to black, which does not stand out on a black background.

Glance does not work anymore, but in current Eclipse Versions (Eclipse 2020) you can
highlight any word by selecting the word and pressing CTRL+F. The word is now highlighted. In the small search input, you can toggle 'match whole word' and case sensitivity.

I'd like to complement the other answers - which work in Java editor only or require plugins - with a way to highlight all occurrences of any text (not just a word or identifier) in any editor of text files (e.g. SQL, CSV, HTML, TXT, Java, etc ...).
There is a standard/built in command called Find Text in File (under Window -> Preferences -> Keys)
By default it has no keyboard shortcut assigned. Simply give it a shortcut (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+S) select some text (not necessarily a word) and it will find and highlight all occurrences of that selected text.
It can also be invoked from the menu as Search -> Text -> File.
Enjoy 🙂

Click the word and hold until a popup appears as shown in the figure.
On the popup, there is a little right arrow, after clicking it, a new icon shows up.
Click that link to open preferences.
Once in preferences, select C/C++ Occurrences (it will be language specific) and select Include in next/previous navigation with Text as Highlighted.
This should enable the feature of highlighting all occurences of the selected word in the opened file.

Configuring tab space for Eclipse Compare Merge editor

Is there a way to configure tab spaces for Eclipse Compare/Merge editor?
I have the Text Editor to use 2 spaces for tab and "Insert spaces for tabs" but this doesn't seem to take effect in the Compare/Merge editor. It's quite annoying since it's occasionally messing up the indentation in the source code. I guess my other option is to use an external tool but it would be great if this can be configured within Eclipse.
I'm using Indigo SR2 (64-bit)
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This appears to be a related Eclipse bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259410

You can choose to ignore whitespaces in the compare editor. Either you right click in the editor and choose Ignore White Space or you set this in eclipses preferences Window -> Preferences -> General -> Compare/Patch -> Ignore White Space

view tabs in eclipse

I need to view the tabs and spaces and CRLF in python source code in eclipse the same way we could see them in notepad++, Now I have to edit in notepad++ and run in eclipse. Not a neat way but eclipse does regular update of the changes of same file in other editor.

This should be cover with the "Show invisible" option
From Eclipse3.3:
It is now possible to see the invisible whitespace characters in textual editors:
This feature can either be controlled via "General > Editors > Text Editors > Show whitespace characters" preference, or via the tool bar button when the Editor Presentation action set is enabled.
I did not tried it with PyDev, but its editor should be a "textual editor", and the option should work.
when I press TAB it creates spaces instead of >> for tabs
Check the option "General > Editors > Text Editors > Insert spaces for tabs":
if unchecked, it will display tabs, not space.