2010/4/23 Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]>: > Can you alter the tab size on the console / terminal?
Yes you can, official only in virtual consoles but with a little trick it works basically everywhere (= in a konsole / xterm / whatever) dsklap:~$ echo -e 'This is a tab:\tYes' This is a tab: Yes dsklap:~$ TERM=linux setterm -regtabs 10 dsklap:~$ echo -e 'This is a tab:\tYes' This is a tab: Yes (more fun if you add in between tabstops with -tabs) Even if we would assume tabs have always width X we would still need to calculate the tabstops as we need to check if both strings are in the same tabstop or not. This is maybe not much more complicated for an application to calculate but a translator will have hard times counting tabstops to align both correctly… (but i would either way free the translator from such a burden) I prefer spaces as even if a script depends highly on the output it is more likely that it will break with a \t instead of a space compared to X spaces instead of one. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
