Why is TextMate treating two spaces as a single character?

Question

When I enter two spaces into TextMate 1.5.7, under certain circumstances it seems to treat the two spaces as a single character..

For example when typing ("[space][space]")

("  |")
     \_ the cursor

If I then press backspace, both spaces get deleted, and if I press the left arrow it jumps both spaces (which is surprisingly annoying)

It's nothing to do with my soft-tabs setting (which is set to 4 space soft-tab).. Has anyone else noticed this?, or is it something strange with my configuration (unlikely as it happened with a clean install, on a new OS install)?

I've since updated to v1.5.8, and the issue remains.

Answer 1

Consider that textmate is an editor for programmers. in most programming languges the number of spaces doesn't matter, so it doesn't seem to me that strange.

Anyway, I use 1.5.8 and I don't have this problem. I also looked in the configuration window and I can't see anything about it.