This is because in Kate the tab key indents instead of inserting a tab character. If your indentation width is smaller than tab width, Kate inserts spaces. If indentation width is larger than tab width, indentation is done with a combination of tabs and spaces.
You get the desired behaviour if you set the tab width to the same as the indentation width. I agree that this is very confusing. One should be able to set 'indent with tabs' and indentation width would then be determined by tab width. -- kate ignores settings for TAB https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282234 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
