macOS How Do You Change the Tab Indention in Terminal?

BlackMax

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Original poster

• May 2, 2009

• #1

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. 🙂

 

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kainjow

Moderator emeritus

• May 2, 2009

• #2

Are you using an editor like vi or emacs?

 

BlackMax

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• May 3, 2009

• #3

I'm using vi. Thanks.

 

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kainjow

Moderator emeritus

• May 3, 2009

• #4

This worked for me: create a ~/.vimrc file and put in it

Code:

set tabstop=4

and then reopen vi.

 

BlackMax

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• May 3, 2009

• #5

Worked great. Thanks!

 

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Virtuo

macrumors member

• May 7, 2009

• #6

kainjow said:

This worked for me: create a ~/.vimrc file and put in it

Code:

set tabstop=4

and then reopen vi.

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This is easier. 🙂

Code:

echo set tabstop=4 >> ~/.vimrc