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Re: Changing the default tab size
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Changing the default tab size |
Date: |
Sat, 19 May 2001 19:45:25 -0400 |
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 10:37:11PM -0400, David Landrith wrote:
> I tried this, and when I do addch(9), I still get 8 characters. (I'm using
> ncurses 5.2 on LinuxPPC 2000Q3 using the version of the 2.4.2 kernel patched
> for nubus.)
>
> on 5/13/01 4:08 PM, Thomas Dickey at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:36:28PM -0400, David Landrith wrote:
> >> I don't know much about terminfo and its libraries, but I am hoping that
> >> there is a way to set the default tab interval used by the console on the
> >> fly. Is there?
> >
> > extern int TABSIZE;
> >
> > TABSIZE = 4;
> >
> > (for ncurses, anyway)
As I read the code, you have to set this after terminal initialization
rather than before. (I'm assuming you didn't - no test program given).
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