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Re: [Lynx-dev] "Correct" tab-stops?


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] "Correct" tab-stops?
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 04:06:42 -0400
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 01:30:02AM -0400, Halaasz Saandor via Lynx-dev wrote:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2018-10/msg00061.html

> 2018/10/29 04:07 ... Bela Lubkin:
> > # "vt100" -- correct messed up tab stops on VT100 / ANSI terminals
> 
> I hav long believed that the right thing is to make no assumptions about tab
> stops.

Lynx doesn't write tabs, but the curses library does (without
taking your assumptions into account).

By the way, Bela's assumptions do not work for "all" VT100-wannabe's
(e.g., KDE konsole), as discussed here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-05/msg00030.html

But that's a bug report for someone else...

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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