I just realized that it's in the use of 'cat' that I was wondering about, not bash. My mistake.
On Jan 11, 10:06 am, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course -- My thing only does vi, but bash doesn't really display files. > Could you clarify what you want bash to do here? I only infrequently see > tabstops *in* the command line. > > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:57 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- > > Daniel
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