Scott Paul Robertson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:17:26PM -0600, Chris Wilson wrote:
As the title says, I am having a hard time figuring out how to change
the tab size used by BASH to something other than 8 (the default). It
seems like such a cruel waste of space! ;) Is there something I can add
to the .bashrc file that allows me to set my own tab size?
Out of curiousity, why do you want bash to have a different tab width?
I'm trying to think when I use a printed tab in bash, and I'm running
short of ideas.
It isn't anything /really/ important. :) I'm tired of running cat on a
file with a lot of indenting and finding half the screen used up by
unnecessary whitespace.
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place: maybe cat (and man, and less, and
others) all have their own tab stop values independent of the shell. I'm
hoping they don't, and that in bash or elsewhere there is a tab length
setting that I can modify to taste.
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