ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190216

[ncurses.git] / man / tabs.1

diff --git a/man/tabs.1 b/man/tabs.1
index ed3e41fa0d3067cd2cf246b89f497a414206ed4c..2a127f339119288b4537c778c89b5e13eeeb8c7d 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tabs.1
+++ b/man/tabs.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"***************************************************************************

-.\" Copyright (c) 2008-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 2008-2018,2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *

 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *


@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"

-.\" $Id: tabs.1,v 1.17 2018/05/19 21:07:46 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tabs.1,v 1.20 2019/02/16 23:56:38 tom Exp $

 .TH @TABS@ 1 ""
 .ds n 5
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .TH @TABS@ 1 ""
 .ds n 5
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq


@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@
 .de NE
 .fi
 .ft R
 .de NE
 .fi
 .ft R

-.in -4
+.ie n  .in -4
+.el    .in -2

 ..
 .SH NAME
 \fB@TABS@\fR \- set tabs on a terminal
 ..
 .SH NAME
 \fB@TABS@\fR \- set tabs on a terminal


@@ -68,6 +69,13 @@ Like \fB@CLEAR@\fR(1), \fB@TABS@\fR writes to the standard output.
 You can redirect the standard output to a file (which prevents
 \fB@TABS@\fR from actually changing the tabstops),
 and later \fBcat\fP the file to the screen, setting tabstops at that point.
 You can redirect the standard output to a file (which prevents
 \fB@TABS@\fR from actually changing the tabstops),
 and later \fBcat\fP the file to the screen, setting tabstops at that point.

+.PP
+These are hardware tabs, which cannot be queried rapidly by applications
+running in the terminal, if at all.
+Curses and other full-screen applications may use hardware tabs
+in optimizing their output to the terminal.
+If the hardware tabstops differ from the information in the terminal
+database, the result is unpredictable.

 .SH OPTIONS
 .SS General Options
 .TP 5
 .SH OPTIONS
 .SS General Options
 .TP 5


@@ -166,7 +174,8 @@ The \fB\-d\fP (debug) and \fB\-n\fP (no-op) options are extensions not provided
 by other implementations.
 .PP
 Documentation for other implementations states that there is a limit on the
 by other implementations.
 .PP
 Documentation for other implementations states that there is a limit on the

-number of tab stops.  While some terminals may not accept an arbitrary number
+number of tab stops.
+While some terminals may not accept an arbitrary number

 of tab stops, this implementation will attempt to set tab stops up to the
 right margin of the screen, if the given list happens to be that long.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 of tab stops, this implementation will attempt to set tab stops up to the
 right margin of the screen, if the given list happens to be that long.
 .SH SEE ALSO