Override "emulated tabs" when editing Makefiles?

[TOM TANNER, BLOOMBERG/ LONDON OF]

Eddy De Greef wrote:
<cut instructions on how to set up tabs>

I've just tried this, and it is very useful (it was driving me nuts as well). However, I've run across a couple of peculiarites

1) When editing a makefile, every time I press tab, a hard tab is inserted (nice), and you get thrown into the search bar. This is rather confusing.

2) (picky) when you hit return, the next line is indented but using spaces.

Despite the complaints - thanks for the instructions. Life is better now (esp as ctrl-tab doesn't always work for reasons that are beyond me).