Tab space in gnome-terminal

[oakdeveloper]

Hi,

I want to change the tab spacing in gnome-terminal from 8 to 4. Where do I change this?
Please help me..

Thanks,
Babu

[DaithiF]

hmm, i don't think gnome-terminal has a setting for tabwidth. Whatever applications you are running within gnome-terminal may, though. What application(s) are you running where you want to change the tabspacing?

For example, in vim you would do:
:set tabstop=4

[oakdeveloper]

Yes! I have done that in Vim. But I want the tab space to be 4 when editing using the "cat > filename" command.

[DaithiF]

Hi,
cat doesn't allow you to configure tabspacing. You could use the expand command instead.

expand -t 4 somefile

man expand

for more info