(Very Newbie) Problems defining a variable

[Lie Ryan]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:58:36 -0800, feba wrote:

> Actually, I have gedit set to four spaces per tab. I have no reason why
> it's showing up that large on copy/paste, but the file itself is fine.

You've set gedit to _show tabs_ as four spaces, but not to substitute 
tabs with four spaces.

Go to gedit's preference where you change how many spaces is used to 
display tabs, right below it is "Insert spaces instead of tabs".