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.
>
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