Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 31 May 2009 20:10:51 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
Cc:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: changing tab stops
Message-ID:  <18979.7307.657951.468037@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090531222531.GA21537@saltmine.radix.net>
References:  <18978.56856.705030.492797@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20090531222531.GA21537@saltmine.radix.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

Thomas Dickey writes:

>  > 	I have a C program that writes to a terminal (currently xterm,
>  > but could be anything).  For reasons I won't go into, I would like
>  > to read and change the terminal's tab stops ... from within the
>  > program ... in a generic/portable way.
>  
>  You could make a program which does what "resize" does to find the
>  screensize: it moves the cursor and asks where it is.  (I'm not
>  aware of an existing program which asks based on tab stops).

	Ugh.  If that's the alternative, I can probably live without.
	Thanks for the suggestion.


					Robert Huff



			



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?18979.7307.657951.468037>