Re: globally setting tab=4 spaces?
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:56:26PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> Will, I think it's in terminfo. man 5 terminfo points you to the it
> variable. But it looks like /etc/terminfo/l/linux is a binary... It's
> days like this when I curse the day that Debian switched from termcap to
> terminfo. I'd have suggested you just change the termcap entry, but I'm
> not too hot on the process for changing terminfo. I hope this gives you a
> starting point though...
>
> On 1 Apr 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:
> >will trillich <will@serensoft.com> writes:
> >> is there a way to change the default 8-col tab to 4-col?
> >> system-wide? (this is linux, after all...)
> >
> > Yes, this is Linux. This means that the standard for hard tabs is 8
> > characters wide.
> >
> > If you ever want to exchange files with anyone else, and you want
> > them to be able to read your files without getting a headache,
> > please either ensure that your tab key inserts spaces, or your hard
> > tabs are 8 characters wide.
> >
> > Many coding conventions require this.
luckily, linux allows an out, even for this hard-headed -- i
mean, hard-wired -- situation.
why else does /usr/share/tabset/ exist?
why would tput exist?
why else could this show anything?
% infocmp -L1 | grep tab
init_tabs#8,
clear_all_tabs=\E[3g,
init_file=/usr/lib/tabset/vt100,
reset_file=/usr/lib/tabset/vt100,
set_tab=\EH,
tab=^I,
oh, look! :) init_tabs#8 ! lookie, lookie!
thanks, john and hashao!
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