[12.4.476 Pro] - Inserting TABs from snippets

[12.4.476 Pro] - Inserting TABs from snippets

I've run into a funomaly, which I'm not sure whether to classify as a bug or a feature – it might well be both.

When inserting a code snippet, the snippet may contain either spaces or TABs as whitespace. Now, the SQL Editor has a setting that controls whether the editor uses spaces or TABs, but this setting is disregarded or overridden when the code is inserted from a snippet. This is where it becomes interesting.

My editor is set to use spaces, and as a result, I normally cannot enter TAB characters into the code, except when using snippets.

Check out this short video here.

The video shows the contents of two snippets with control characters. The BEGIN snippet includes one indented line with a TAB, and the "arbitrary" snippet includes one line indented with spaces and another with a TAB. Now, if I trigger the BEGIN snippet and replace its TAB-indented line with one indented by spaces, then triggering the "arbitrary" snippet on the indented line will indent all the lines in the "arbitrary" snippet to the level where the caret was when invoking the snippet, while preserving the TAB explicitly included in the snippet.

However, if I leave the original TAB from the BEGIN snippet, invoking the "arbitrary" snippet will indent all its lines using TAB characters instead of spaces.

Is this behavior intentional or accidental?

EDIT:
In addition to the above, SA inserts plain table expansions using TABs, regardless of that setting.

Check out this short video here.