yo generate with tabs instead of spaces

Question

I'm going to use the angular generator for this example. All files that have indentation are generated with a 2 spaces indentation by default but I want to use tabs instead.

Is there a way to let yo know that I want to use tabs before generating the app?

edit: it seems this is underway but not available as of now. See https://github.com/yeoman/generator/issues/460

Answer 1

As of version 0.18, generators can use gulp plugins to process file writes. This allows generators to ask a user their preferred indentation and apply it to the output.

You can see more about this technical detail on the release announcement: http://yeoman.io/blog/release-0.18.html

It is important to note that every generator is free to implement that feature. It is not something yo will (or can) enforce on his own. So feel free to open tickets on the generators you'd like to see implementing that feature.