Every time I try to use Visual Studio as just a text editor I find its behaviour of spaces/tabs a complete disaster. I know that heaps of people use it and love it, so I can tell that it must be me that is the weirdo, but is it too much to ask for:

1) Pressing tab inserts a tab 2) Pressing space inserts a space 3) Pressing enter inserts a newline, with the new line starting with the same whitespace as the previous line 4) Pressing shift-tab removes the leading tab from the start of the current line, or N(=4) spaces from the start of the current line

No surprises, no auto-formatting, no having to go and reconfigure your text editor behaviour when you find random files with different conventions, no modelines etc. I see the huge depth of preferences in VS, and think it must be possible, but every time I come away less confident.