Indented lines of four lengths

[SlRofa-SUSE]

Hello, the default indent line is 8 spaces indented once, how can I set it to 4 spaces.

[chuckdavisson]

There are a couple of ways. I'm assuming that you're using vim, so:

You could add this to your .vimrc file:
set tabstop=4 " number of visual spaces per TAB
set softtabstop=4 " number of spaces per tab when editing
set shiftwidth=4 " spaces to insert or remove using the indentation commands
set expandtab " tabs are spaces

OR, if you want different spaces for different purposes, for example 4 spaces per tab for Python, 2 spaces for YAML files, you could add this to your .vimrc file instead of the above:

" Shell
autocmd Filetype sh setlocal tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab
" Python
autocmd Filetype py setlocal tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab
" YAML
autocmd Filetype yaml setlocal tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2 expandtab
autocmd Filetype yml setlocal tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2 expandtab
" JSON
autocmd Filetype json setlocal tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2 expandtab
" Jinja 2
autocmd Filetype j2 setlocal tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2 expandtab

Note that the " in the .vimrc file just indicates that the line is a comment

There's probably other (better) ways to do what you're asking, but this is how I do it.

Hope that helps!

[SlRofa-SUSE]

Thank you. It is now shown in four spaces.