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>
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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
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