Is there a way to make the tab key in vi (vim) use spaces instead of
the tab?

On Jan 11, 9:57 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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