How to Insert a Tab Character in Iterm

How do I insert a tab character in Iterm?

The answer was to hit control+v, then tab afterwards, not all together! Hope this helps someone.

How do I type a TAB character in PowerShell?

If it helps, you can embed a tab character in a
double-quoted string:

"`t hello"

How do you type a tab in a bash here-document?

You can embed your here doc in your script and assign it to a variable without using a separate file at all:

#!/bin/bash
read -r -d '' var<<"EOF"
coffee\t$1.50
tea\t$1.50
burger\t$5.00
EOF

Then printf or echo -e will expand the \t characters into tabs. You can output it to a file:

printf "%s\n" "$var" > prices.txt

Or assign the variable's value to itself using printf -v:

printf -v var "%s\n" "$var"

Now var or the file prices.txt contains actual tabs instead of \t.

You could process your here doc as it's read instead of storing it in a variable or writing it to a file:

while read -r item price
do
    printf "The price of %s is %s.\n" $item $price    # as a sentence
    printf "%s\t%s\n" $item $price                  # as a tab-delimited line
done <<- "EOF"
    coffee $1.50    # I'm using spaces between fields in this case
    tea $1.50
    burger $5.00
    EOF

Note that I used <<- for the here doc operator in this case. This allows me to indent the lines of the here doc for readability. The indentation must consist of tabs only (no spaces).

How to put enter or return when sending text in iTerm2

Try adding \n after the command in "send text" e.g a key mapped to code . \n will open vscode in the current folder.

How to automatically set iTerm2 tab title to the filename opened in vim?

I don't have iTerm, so I can't test this, but try adding this to your .vimrc:

set t_ts=^[]1;
set t_fs=^G

Type CTRL-V Escape for ^[ and CTRL-V CTRL-G for ^G.

Redefine tab as 4 spaces

It depends on what you mean. Do you want actual tab characters in your file to appear 4 spaces wide, or by "tab" do you actually mean an indent, generated by pressing the tab key, which would result in the file literally containing (up to) 4 space characters for each "tab" you type?

Depending on your answer, one of the following sets of
settings should work for you:

• For tab characters that appear 4-spaces-wide:

  set tabstop=4
  

  If you're using actual tab character in your source code you probably also want these settings (these are actually the defaults, but you may want to set them defensively):

  set softtabstop=0 noexpandtab
  

  Finally, if you want an indent to correspond to a single tab, you should also use:

  set shiftwidth=4
  

• For indents that consist of 4 space characters but are entered with the tab key:

  set tabstop=8 softtabstop=0 expandtab shiftwidth=4 smarttab
  

To make the above settings permanent add
these lines to your vimrc.

In case you need to make adjustments, or would simply like to understand what these options all mean, here's a breakdown of what each option means:

tabstop

The width of a hard tabstop measured in "spaces" -- effectively the (maximum) width of an actual tab character.

shiftwidth

The size of an "indent". It's also measured in spaces, so if your code base indents with tab characters then you want shiftwidth to equal the number of tab characters times tabstop. This is also used by things like the =, > and < commands.

softtabstop

Setting this to a non-zero value other than tabstop will make the tab key (in insert mode)
insert a combination of spaces (and possibly tabs) to simulate tab stops at this width.

expandtab

Enabling this will make the tab key (in insert mode) insert spaces instead of
tab characters. This also affects the behavior of the retab command.

smarttab

Enabling this will make the tab key (in insert mode) insert spaces or tabs to
go to the next indent
of the next tabstop when the cursor is at the beginning of a line (i.e. the
only preceding characters are whitespace).

For more details on any of these see :help 'optionname' in vim (e.g. :help 'tabstop')

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