How to fix tab limit in BlueJ

I will be brief. Currently in BlueJ, if you print more than 3 tabs in a row, it will only print 3 tabs. you can see this with the following print statements (in Java):

System.out.println("\tX"); System.out.println("\t\tX"); System.out.println("\t\t\tX"); System.out.println("\t\t\t\tX"); System.out.println("\t\t\t\t\tX");

Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it? The problem goes away when using spaces, but that's inconvenient for the way I'm using them.