On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 19:52 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Hello all, > > Long story short, I'm using gdb to debug tab=4 code, and gdb is slowly, > but firmly, driving me nuts. > In a normal consoles, using $ setterm -regtabs 4 changes the tab > width/size/stop/etc to 4. > However, when I try to do the same in xterm/konsole/etc (where > TERM=xterm), setterm doesn't seem to work. (Unless I set TERM=linux, > which should break other things.) > > I tried adding the it#4: to the termcap xterm-new entry, but neither > xterm nor konsole seem to honor it. > > Anyone have any ideas? * > > - Gilboa > > * No religious "VI vs. Emacs" like answers. Thanks. > >
FYI, seems (without looking at the code) that setterm disables the regtabs functionality if TERM=xterm/xterm-color. As a result, doing '$ TERM=linux setterm -regtabs 4' works even-though the terminal changes back to TERM=xterm/xterm-color once setterm returns. Thank God for small favors :) - Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
