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Sublime Text 3 has a default feature which makes tabs overlap each other instead of the old behavior where the horizontal length of the tab would shrink. How do you disable this?

Oliver Salzburg
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    Did you get this from http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15082 ? – andyb Jan 08 '14 at 08:35
  • No. I found it by searching for "tab" in Sublime Text > Preferences > Settings - Default. – frediy Jan 12 '14 at 15:36
  • It took me a while to realize that the tab here is in the sense like the tab of a browser, not a tab character `\t` or the `Tab` key – aafulei Feb 21 '22 at 12:29

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In Sublime Text > Preferences > Settings - User, add the following line.

"enable_tab_scrolling": false,
frediy
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  • When I do this, The tab size is becoming very small when I have multiple tabs. How can enable this and also make sure that the individual tab size is not reduced when multiple tabs are present? – Bej Apr 16 '19 at 10:01