Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:47:12 +0200 From: ash@contact.bg To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Question regarding the tabs utility plus xterm in FreeBSD Message-ID: <1207216032.47f4a7a067cca@www.contact.bg>
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Hi everybody, I would like to ask about the behaviour of the tabs utility in FreeBSD and xterm. I am the coordinator for Gnome translations in Bulgarian but I have experience mostly with Fedora and none with FreeBSD. Some of the translation output that goes to a terminal contains tabs. (ASCII 9 - Horizontal Tabs). I found out that FreeBSD contains an implementation of the POSIX tabs utility which should be able to change tab positions. I do not have access to a FreeBSD install (much less - one with xterm) and hoped that someone could help me find out whether it is possible to change the tabs in a xterm session (or the FreeBSD console) so that when a file containing tabs is output - the tabs will be spaced differently than the usual default (which at least at my machine is 8 spaces) Kind regards: al_shopov
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