How Do You Change the Tab Indention in Terminal?

[BlackMax]

I'm writing some python scripts using terminal and would like to change the tab indention from 8 spaces to 4 spaces. Does anyone know how you change the tab indention in terminal?

Thanks. :)

[kainjow]

Are you using an editor like vi or emacs?

[BlackMax]

I'm using vi. Thanks.

[kainjow]

This worked for me: create a ~/.vimrc file and put in it set tabstop=4 and then reopen vi.

[BlackMax]

Worked great. Thanks!

[Virtuo]

This worked for me: create a ~/.vimrc file and put in it set tabstop=4 and then reopen vi.

This is easier. :)
echo set tabstop=4 >> ~/.vimrc