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. > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > >
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