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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?
