macOS How Do You Change the Tab Indention in Terminal?

[BlackMax]

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.

 

[kainjow]

Are you using an editor like vi or emacs?

 

[BlackMax]

I'm using vi. Thanks.

 

[kainjow]

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

set tabstop=4

and then reopen vi.

 

[BlackMax]

Worked great. Thanks!

 

[Virtuo]

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

set tabstop=4

and then reopen vi.

This is easier.

echo set tabstop=4 >> ~/.vimrc