On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:36:08AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Yea, 8 seems a bit wide for programs. Here's what I often put in > my source files for vim. > > /* vim: set softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab: */ > > Basically, you end up with a file that has spaces instead of tabs due to > the expandtab directive.
rather than have four characters do the work of one, i'd just like to find a system setting (/etc/tabstops ? ~/.inputrc ? $ENV{TAB_STOPS} ? ) that changes default 8-column tabs to 3- or 4-col tabs. is there a way to change the default 8-col tab to 4-col? system-wide? (this is linux, after all...) -- does a brain cell think? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!