How to set TAB to 4 spaces in vim?

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01-04-2006, 11:35 AM	#1
kornerr Member Registered: Dec 2004 Location: Russia, Siberia, Kemerovo Distribution: Slackware Posts: 893 Rep:	How to set TAB to 4 spaces in vim? That's the question. Thanks.

01-04-2006, 11:48 AM	#2
kornerr Member Registered: Dec 2004 Location: Russia, Siberia, Kemerovo Distribution: Slackware Posts: 893 Original Poster Rep:	It's Code: set ts=4

01-05-2006, 01:26 AM	#3
IBall Senior Member Contributing Member Registered: Nov 2003 Location: Perth, Western Australia Distribution: Ubuntu, Debian, Various using VMWare Posts: 2,088 Rep:	If you want that to be permanent, add the above line to ~/.vimrc. In case you are interested, have a look at http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=237 for some other vim settings that you may find useful. I hope this helps --Ian
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