Re: tab stops

"Richard A. O'Keefe" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
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> 2013/11/9 Jonathon Doran <[email protected]>
>> Is there a way to set tab stops once -- without doing so in each format/2
>> call?

On 9/11/2013, at 9:31 PM, Carlo Capelli wrote:
> pqConsole:console_settings([tabStopWidth(W)])

It's not clear to me what the original use case is.
What if the output is being written to a file?

If the width of fields is something that matters to
you, you should not be using tabs in the first place.
Amongst other things, consider the tabs(1) command,
which might or might not be effective with your terminal.
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