VS Code changes indention of current line

I am using VS Code 1.28.2 on Windows 10. I’m editing an HTML file indented with tabs. But I have HTML <pre> sections which I want indented with spaces.

Let’s say I have the following code:

<pre>
  foo //I press <Enter> at the end of this line
</pre>

• When I open the file VS Code detects I use tabs. Fine.
• When I hit <Enter> at the end of the line that says “foo”, VS Code indents the next line. Fine.
• VS Code isn’t smart enough to realize that I want to indent the next line with spaces instead of a tab, because it already got into its head that I want to use tabs everywhere. It’s not smart enough to realize that the previous line foo was indented with spaces. It uses a tab for the next line. But OK, I can live with that, too. It’s understandable.
• Bug: What isn’t acceptable is that VS Code changes the indention of the existing line from spaces to tabs!!

Yes, when I hit <Enter> after “foo”, it not only indents the next line but changes the indention that comes before foo from spaces to tabs.

<pre>
  foo //bug: the two spaces have been converted to a tab!
  //this new line also has a tab, which I don't want but can accept for now
</pre>

VS Code has no business of changing the existing line. I simply hit <Enter> to go to the next time. This is a huge problem, and it has likely corrupted a bunch of lines in this file because I didn’t catch on to what it was doing.

Sure, we have auto-indent features to try to automatically insert indent on the following line, but please don’t mess with the line I already have.

How can I turn this off?

[vscodebot[bot]]

(Experimental duplicate detection) Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Convert width of space indentation (#17802)
• Feature request: indents to space (from tabs) (#44920)
• Disable autoindent (#5446)
• Detect Indentation setting removes single space on indent (#61442)

[sohrabsaran]

You can now turn off editor.autoIndent to workaround for now.

Please clarify the exact steps to do this? Please see also issue #109382 I tried setting the value to ‘none’ under workspace settings, restarted vs code and and it does not work (on pressing Ctrl+S (save shortcut?) the indentation is corrected, which is not what I expect). (If #109382 is a separate issue, please reopen it).