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- IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 + IEEE Std 1003.1/The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 (POSIX.1-2008) describes a tabs utility. However o This standard describes a +m option, to set a terminal's left-mar- - gin. Very few of the entries in the terminal database provide this - capability. + gin. Very few of the entries in the terminal database provide the + smgl (set_left_margin) or smglp (set_left_margin_parm) capability + needed to support the feature. - o There is no counterpart in X/Open Curses Issue 7 for this utility, + o There is no counterpart in X/Open Curses Issue 7 for this utility, unlike tput(1). - The -d (debug) and -n (no-op) options are extensions not provided by + The -d (debug) and -n (no-op) options are extensions not provided by other implementations. - Documentation for other implementations states that there is a limit on - the number of tab stops. While some terminals may not accept an arbi- - trary 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. + A tabs utility appeared in PWB/Unix 1.0 (1977), and thereafter in 3BSD + (1979). It supported a single "-n" option (to cause the first tab stop + to be set on the left margin). That option is not documented by POSIX. + Initially, tabs used built-in tables rather than the terminal database, + to support a half-dozen terminal types. It also had built-in logic to + support the left-margin, as well as a feature for copying the tab set- + tings from a file. + + Later versions of Unix, e.g., SVr4, added support for the terminal + database, but kept the tables, as a fallback. In an earlier develop- + ment effort, the tab-stop initialization provided by tset (1982) and + incorporated into tput uses the terminal database, + + 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. 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. + + The Rationale section of the POSIX documentation goes into some detail + about the ways the committee considered redesigning the tabs and tput + utilities, without proposing an improved solution. It comments that + + no known historical version of tabs supports the capability of + setting arbitrary tab stops. + + However, the Explicit Lists described in this manual page were imple- + mented in PWB/Unix. Those provide the capability of setting abitrary + tab stops.
tset(1), infocmp(1m), curses(3x), terminfo(5). - This describes ncurses version 6.1 (patch 20180127). + This describes ncurses version 6.1 (patch 20190615).