Unable to force tabs for Makefile

[muuvmuuv]

So there are existing issue but that didn't help me. VSCode is always preferring spaces in my Makefile. When I click in the bottom right to use tabs and switch to another file which uses spaces and go back to the makefile, VSCode is again using spaces instead of tabs. I expect VS Code to use only tabs and not to switch back to spaces when clicking between files that have different indention types.

Settings I apply:

{
  "editor.tabSize": 2,
  "editor.insertSpaces": true,
  "editor.detectIndentation": true,
  "[makefile]": {
    "editor.tabSize": 4,
    "editor.insertSpaces": false,
    "editor.detectIndentation": false
  }
}

• VSCode Version: 1.35.1
• OS Version: macOS 10.14.5

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a Makefile
2. Change spaces to tabs
3. Open a file e.g. test.js
4. Go back to Makefile

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

[louisabraham]

I'm going to go even further and say VSCode should automatically use tabs for makefiles as spaces break them.

[gilescope]

Hitting this on 1.41.1 / win10. Unless I set detectIndentation to false it does the wrong thing. Detect indentiaton does the wrong thing at the moment. Please get makefiles right as there's lots of them out there. (it does detect that it's a makefile - I get a pretty icon and it says on the status bar.)

[rebornix]

@gilescope sorry for reaching out late. I'm not able to reproduce this issue currently, can you please share a sample makefile which you can reproduce this bug?

[gilescope]

Alas I don't have the makefile in question any more. It was only a little one I made up with a few targets- wasn't anything fancy. Does the autodetection check the filename? a file called makefile is highly likely to be one, unlikely to go wrong there.

[muuvmuuv]

Resolved I guess, haven't had it till now