Tabs and Indents

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JohnOb

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In VS.2005, using VB.NET

My editor is behaving strangely.

If I press the tab key, the line moves over the appropriate
number of spaces. When I click on another line, the line that I had tab'd on
moves over more spaces.

I have changed the tab and insert, but it doesn't seem to work.

The help says:

Indent size
Sets the size in spaces of an automatic indentation. The default is four spaces. Tab characters, space characters, or both will be inserted to fill the specified size.

What does this mean? What is an "Automatic indentation?"
Is that a tab?
What exactly is the difference between tab and automatic indentation,
do they influence one another.

Thanks in Advance,

Laurence
:confused:
 
I believe automatic indentation is when you press the enter key to go to a new line, you are already indented according to where you are in the code.

I have noticed that the number of spaces is fluky sometimes too. I always just assumed it was because I pressed enter in the middle of a line of spaces and started a build up of space characters or something.
 
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