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Add clarification about how the indentation works

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Attila Gonda 2020-07-08 17:36:55 +02:00 committed by David Peter
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@ -444,6 +444,16 @@ If you want to enable mouse-wheel scrolling on older versions of `less`, you can
in the example above, this will disable the quit-if-one-screen feature). For less 530 or newer,
it should work out of the box.
### Indentation
`bat` expands tabs to 4 spaces by itself, not relying on the pager. To change this, simply add the
`--tabs` argument with the number of spaces you want to be displayed.
**Note**: Defining tab stops for the pager (via the `--pager` argument by `bat`, or via the `LESS`
environment variable for `less`) won't be taken into account because the pager will already get
expanded spaces instead of tabs. This behaviour is added to avoid indentation issues caused by the
sidebar. Calling `bat` with `--tabs=0` will override it and let tabs be consumed by the pager.
### Dark mode
If you make use of the dark mode feature in macOS, you might want to configure `bat` to use a different