put this in your ~/.vimrc: set ts=4 set sw=4 ts is the tabstop, and will make the tab character render as 4 spaces. sw is the shiftwidth, and will affect vim's indenting (using the >>/<< commands or the autoindent feature), and make default indentation changes be 4 spaces (or one tabstop).
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:42:05AM -0800, Jeremy Leonard wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to change the number of characters that > bash and vi uses when displaying tabs in a file. It seems like the > default is 8 and I would like to change this to 4. I think I'm either > looking in the wrong places or I'm blind ... any help would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
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