How to tabSize = 4 please

I normally work on vim with the tab width set to 4. I recently just open vscode to do some refactoring and every file that was touched had their indentations changed to 2 spaces. I thought knew how to setup tabSize in vscode and even how to set it per workspace and per language this is part of my vs code settings.json file

{
  
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "editor.tabSize": 4,
    "editor.insertSpaces": true,
    "editor.wordBasedSuggestions": false,
    "editor.formatOnType": true,
    "editor.trimAutoWhitespace": false,
    "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
    "files.insertFinalNewline": true,
    "files.trimFinalNewlines": true,
    "[elixir]": {
        "editor.tabSize": 4,
        "editor.formatOnSave": true,
        "editor.insertSpaces": true,
        "editor.formatOnType": true,
        "editor.wordBasedSuggestions": false,
        "editor.trimAutoWhitespace": false,
        "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
        "files.insertFinalNewline": true,
        "files.trimFinalNewlines": true
    }
}

The final fix was to set editor.formatOnSave to false

Question: can i use MY preferred tab width with this plugin, or is there something more i need to do?

[NobbZ]

As I said already, the option is editable and VScode adheres to it. And if you do not format your code, then there will be nothing that destroys your beloved 4 spaces indent…

Also, setting it to 2 by default, makes it match the formatter and therefore the decreases clutter during format on save.

[NobbZ]

This option is provided by VScode and not “removable”.