I have an lstlisting that renders some lines of code. The code is indented by four spaces per indent. Is there any setting to change the indentation to only two spaces? I know that there is tabsize but that is obviously for tabs and I would like to avoid changing the code itself.

Any suggestions?

  • It seems easier to use your editor to perform a search-and-replace, since you probably don't have consecutive spaces anywhere else in your code. Just a guess though. – Werner Dec 27 '13 at 21:08

One possible approach is to use the literate key to replace each occurence of two consecutives spaces by one space.

Caveats: this approach will

  • perform such replacements "within" lines of code also (though not in string literals),
  • interfere with the autogobble option (offered by the lstautogobble package), which is used to remove leading spaces in a listing.

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% code available at http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/classes.html
class MyClass:
    """A simple example     class"""
    i = 12345
    def f(self):
        return 'hello world'

    literate = *{\ \ }{\ }1, %replaces each occurence of two consecutive spaces by one

Indent = 4 spaces (as in the original listing)
Indent = 2 spaces

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