# Controlling tab width in Juno Console

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/controlling-tab-width-in-juno-console/20525>\
**Category:** Juno\
**Created:** [February 6, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/controlling-tab-width-in-juno-console/20525 "2019-02-06T23:54:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![tanhevg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tanhevg/32/12025_2.png) [@tanhevg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tanhevg)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/controlling-tab-width-in-juno-console/20525/1 "2019-02-06T23:54:56Z")

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Hello,

How do I change the tab stops that are used by Juno Console (REPL based), when a string with tab characters is printed out ? Right now they seem to be set at 4, so when I run my example below the columns are not aligned. I want to change this to 8, as in my Terminal. Changing settings of package “language-julia” in Atom settings (Julia Console Grammar → Tab Length) does not seem to make any difference.

Code:

```julia
println(join(string.(1:5), "\t"))
println(join(string.(10.0:10.0:50.0), "\t"))

```

Output

```julia
1 2 3 4 5
10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0

```

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**Author:** ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/controlling-tab-width-in-juno-console/20525/2 "2019-02-07T08:51:55Z")

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There’s no option for changing the Terminal tab width at the moment. I can add one for the next release, but you shouldn’t really rely on a specific tab width for anything tbh.

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**Author:** ![tanhevg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tanhevg/32/12025_2.png) [@tanhevg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tanhevg)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/controlling-tab-width-in-juno-console/20525/3 "2019-02-07T14:52:09Z")

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Never mind, `rpad(...)` and `lpad(...)` are really a better way to achieve this.