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Switch between tabs in gnome-terminal with keyboard?

Once creating a new tab in gnome-terminal with ctrl+shift+t how can I switch back and forth between the tabs using the keyboard? For example, in google chrome the keyboard shortcut is ctrl+tab ...
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In Vim, how can I automatically determine whether to use spaces or tabs for indentation?

Sometimes I edit others source code where the prevailing style is to use tabs. In this case, I want to keep the existing convention of using literal tabs. For files I create myself, and files that ...
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problems with tab order in Kate

I use the standard Tab Bar plugin in Kate v3.8.5 on Fedora 16 and when I rearrange my tabs with my mouse (haven't found a way to do it with the keyboard), and then switch tabs with Alt+Left and ...
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How can I use column to delimit on tabs and not spaces?

I'd like to use Unix column to format some text. I have fields delimited by tabs, but within each field there are also spaces. column delimits on white space (tabs and spaces). How can I make column ...
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Setting tab width in C++ output in bash

I have a c++ program and I use the tab character "\t" to organize my output to a human-readable columns. However, 8-spaces-wide column in bash is too narrow for me. How can I increase it? Note: In ...
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Is it possible to select tabs as tabs with mouse in urxvt?

I am running urxvt on Arch Linux. I can select the output with mouse for copy / paste. The problem occurs when output contains tabulators. All tabulators are selected and copied as spaces. That makes ...
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Set tab width in GUI terminal

I found that setterm -regtabs 4 doesn't work in xterm or urxvt. But, this xterm_set_tabs () { TERM=linux; export $TERM; setterm -regtabs 4 } will circumvent the problem. But, I suspect ...
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How to make tab insert spaces in pico?

Most text editors have a setting for converting tabs to spaces. How would this be done in pico?