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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?

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    Did you get this from sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15082 ?
    – andyb
    Commented Jan 8, 2014 at 8:35
  • No. I found it by searching for "tab" in Sublime Text > Preferences > Settings - Default.
    – frediy
    Commented Jan 12, 2014 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
    Commented Feb 21, 2022 at 12:29

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

"enable_tab_scrolling": false,
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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
    Commented Apr 16, 2019 at 10:01

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