I'm using Emacs as an editor. I want to set the tab size to four spaces. In my .emacs file I have the following: (setq default-tab-width 4) I've also tried: (set-default tab-width 4) Either w...

I used the solution here to change tab size in git diff output. That works fine with git diff. I have these settings in my .gitconfig: [core] whitespace = tabsize=4,indent-with-non-tab pager = ...

When I view files on GitHub, tabs appear as 8 spaces. Example: Is that possible to change this configuration to 2 or 4 spaces?

I just switched from Sublime Text to Atom in order to turn completely open source. I have trouble with something very very simple: I want Atom to use always (!) and under any circumstances tab wid...

I'm using notepad++ (v6.5.3) and I constantly have to change the size of the tab for viewing some results. Not that it's taking me a lot of time to do it manually everytime, but it would be great i...

In some of my PHP files Sublime shows vertical lines (tab stops?) spaced 2 characters apart, and other files default to having these vertical lines at 3 characters apart (my preferred tab length). ...