Indent with Spaces

Since Obsidian 1.8, pressing Tab with Indent using tabs turned off always inserts 4 spaces. The Tab indent size setting only controls how wide a tab character is displayed.

This plugin makes Tab indent by 2 spaces and Shift+Tab unindent by 2 spaces. The number of spaces can be changed in Settings → Indent with Spaces → Spaces per indent (1–8).

Behavior

• Tab on a list item, or with the cursor in a line's leading whitespace: adds the indent at the start of the line.
• Tab with several lines selected: indents every selected line, for example to move a whole code block under a list item.
• Tab in the middle of plain text: not handled, so Obsidian or another plugin gets it.
• Cells of Live Preview tables: not handled, so Tab / Shift+Tab move between cells as usual.
• Shift+Tab: removes up to one indent of leading spaces (or one tab) from each selected line.
• Tables (lines starting with |, indented or not): if Advanced Tables is enabled, Tab / Shift+Tab run its Next cell / Previous cell commands. These also work in Live Preview, where Advanced Tables' own Tab binding is turned off, and Tab on a header-only row inserts the | --- | delimiter row. Without Advanced Tables, Tab is left to Obsidian.

Limitations

• Indenting a list item moves only that line, not its child items. Select the children as well to move them together.

Installation

Install Indent with Spaces from Settings → Community plugins → Browse.

Manual

1. Download main.js and manifest.json from the latest release.
2. Put them in <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/two-space-indent/ (the plugin id stays two-space-indent).
3. Reload Obsidian and enable Indent with Spaces in Settings → Community plugins.

License

MIT

Releasing

1. Bump version in manifest.json and add it to versions.json.
2. Commit, then push a tag with the exact version, for example git tag 0.4.1 && git push origin main 0.4.1.

The release workflow builds the GitHub release and attaches artifact attestations for main.js and manifest.json.