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-.\" Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey *
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-.\" $Id: tabs.1,v 1.28 2020/12/19 21:50:22 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: tabs.1,v 1.35 2021/12/25 19:04:39 tom Exp $
.TH @TABS@ 1 ""
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.SH NAME
-\fB@TABS@\fR \- set tabs on a terminal
+\fB@TABS@\fP \- set tabs on a terminal
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fB@TABS@\fR [\fIoptions\fR]] \fI[tabstop-list]\fR
+\fB@TABS@\fP [\fIoptions\fP]] \fI[tabstop-list]\fP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
The \fB@TABS@\fP program clears and sets tab-stops on the terminal.
-This uses the terminfo \fIclear_all_tabs\fP and \fIset_tab\fP capabilities.
+This uses the terminfo \fBclear_all_tabs\fP and \fBset_tab\fP capabilities.
If either is absent, \fB@TABS@\fP is unable to clear/set tab-stops.
The terminal should be configured to use hard tabs, e.g.,
.NS
stty tab0
.NE
.PP
-Like \fB@CLEAR@\fR(1), \fB@TABS@\fR writes to the standard output.
+Like \fB@CLEAR@\fP(1), \fB@TABS@\fP writes to the standard output.
You can redirect the standard output to a file (which prevents
-\fB@TABS@\fR from actually changing the tabstops),
+\fB@TABS@\fP 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
This option tells \fB@TABS@\fP to check the options and run any debugging
option, but not to modify the terminal settings.
.TP
-\fB\-V\fR
+\fB\-V\fP
reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits.
.PP
The \fB@TABS@\fP program processes a single list of tab stops.
.PP
which is equivalent to the 1,6,11,16,21 example.
.SS Predefined Tab-Stops
-X/Open defines several predefined lists of tab stops.
+POSIX defines several predefined lists of tab stops.
.TP 5
.B \-a
Assembler, IBM S/370, first format
+.br
+1,10,16,36,72
.TP 5
.B \-a2
Assembler, IBM S/370, second format
+.br
+1,10,16,40,72
.TP 5
.B \-c
COBOL, normal format
+.br
+1,8,12,16,20,55
.TP 5
.B \-c2
COBOL compact format
+.br
+1,6,10,14,49
.TP 5
.B \-c3
COBOL compact format extended
+.br
+1,6,10,14,18,22,26,30,34,38,42,46,50,54,58,62,67
.TP 5
.B \-f
FORTRAN
+.br
+1,7,11,15,19,23
.TP 5
.B \-p
PL/I
+.br
+1,5,9,13,17,21,25,29,33,37,41,45,49,53,57,61
.TP 5
.B \-s
SNOBOL
+.br
+1,10,55
.TP 5
.B \-u
UNIVAC 1100 Assembler
+.br
+1,12,20,44
+.SS Margins
+A few terminals provide the capability for changing their left/right margins.
+The @TABS@ program has an option to use this feature:
+.TP 5
+.BI +m \ margin
+The effect depends on whether the terminal has the margin capabilities:
+.RS
+.bP
+If the terminal provides the capability for setting the left margin,
+@TABS@ uses this, and adjusts the available width for tab-stops.
+.bP
+If the terminal does not provide the margin capabilities,
+@TABS@ imitates the effect, putting the tab stops at the appropriate
+place on each line.
+The terminal's left-margin is not modified.
+.RE
+.IP
+If the \fImargin\fP parameter is omitted, the default is 10.
+Use \fB+m0\fP to reset the left margin,
+i.e., to the left edge of the terminal's display.
+Before setting a left-margin,
+@TABS@ resets the margin to reduce problems which might arise
+on moving the cursor before the current left-margin.
+.PP
+When setting or resetting the left-margin,
+@TABS@ may reset the right-margin.
.SH PORTABILITY
.PP
\fIIEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7\fP (POSIX.1-2008)
capability needed to support the feature.
.bP
There is no counterpart in X/Open Curses Issue 7 for this utility,
-unlike \fB@TPUT@(1)\fP.
+unlike \fB@TPUT@\fP(1).
.PP
The \fB\-d\fP (debug) and \fB\-n\fP (no-op) options are extensions not provided
by other implementations.
.PP
The PWB/Unix \fBtabs\fP utility, which was included in System III (1980),
used built-in tables rather than the terminal database,
-to support a half-dozen terminal types.
+to support a half-dozen hardcopy terminal (printer) types.
It also had built-in logic to support the left-margin,
as well as a feature for copying the tab settings from a file.
.PP
Later versions of Unix, e.g., SVr4,
added support for the terminal database,
-but kept the tables, as a fallback.
+but kept the tables to support the printers.
In an earlier development effort,
the tab-stop initialization provided by \fBtset\fP (1982)
and incorporated into \fBtput\fP uses the terminal database,
.PP
+The \fB+m\fP option was documented
+in the Base Specifications Issue 5 (Unix98, 1997),
+and omitted in Issue 6 (Unix03, 2004) without documenting the rationale,
+though an introductory comment
+\fI\*(``and optionally adjusts the margin\*(''\fP remains,
+overlooked in the removal.
+The documented \fBtabs\fP utility in Issues 6 and later has no mechanism
+for setting margins.
+The \fB+m\fP option in this implementation differs from the feature
+in SVr4 by using terminal capabilities rather than built-in tables.
+.PP
POSIX documents no limits on the number of tab stops.
Documentation for other implementations states that there is a limit on the
number of tab stops
were implemented in PWB/Unix.
Those provide the capability of setting abitrary tab stops.
.SH SEE ALSO
-\fB@INFOCMP@\fR(1M),
-\fB@TSET@\fR(1),
-\fBcurses\fR(3X),
-\fBterminfo\fR(\*n).
+\fB@INFOCMP@\fP(1M),
+\fB@TSET@\fP(1),
+\fBcurses\fP(3X),
+\fBterminfo\fP(\*n).
.PP
-This describes \fBncurses\fR
+This describes \fBncurses\fP
version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
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