will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >it's trivial to set > > :set ts=4 > >to have VI (vim) use every fourth console column for a tab stop, >but displaying things via LESS or MUTT, everything is still at 8 >chars. > >is there a way to set TABS=4 globally? (badly-behaved programs >may hardwire it into their code, but who, using debian, condones >badly-behaved code? :)
I've always much preferred leaving tabs at 8 spaces (the one true tab width), and setting softtabstop (sts) to 4 in vim (possibly shiftwidth as well). That way you get 4-space tabs to all intents and purposes while editing but you save files in such a way that other programs read them as they were intended to look. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
