Changing the default tab size

[David Landrith]

Hello all,

I'm working on an application that will allow for tab intervals to be set in
configuration files.  Thus, I need to allow for a default tab size of other
than 8.

I've looked through newsgroups, the mail archive, the FAQ, and I've even
made a cursory run through the source, and it looks to me like ncurses will
not change the default tab size without recompiling.  It appears that
ncurses grabs the value of init_tabs in the terminfo database, and lacking
an init_tabs value it uses 8.  So it looks like the answer is to be found in
the terminfo libraries.

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?

Best,

Dave

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  David King Landrith                      (v) 617-359-6206

  One useless man is a disgrace, two are called a law firm,
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