Re: Changing the default tab size

[David Landrith]

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)

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