On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:53:57AM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > * Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-29 21:37]: > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:22:53PM -0700, Jim Osborn wrote: > > > How can I control the number of spaces a <tab> character > > > uses when reading mail in the pager? Mutt 1.3.99i. > > > > It appears to be hardcoded (to 8). > > Most versions of curses assume 8. > > yes, the builtin pager has "no options". > however, you can use other pagers > such as vim which would allow this. > > set pager="vim -c ts=4 -"
I added the ^T (toggle tabs) to tin sometime around 1994. There are a lot of newspostings that assume tabs are set to 4. So it's probably useful in some contexts. People tend to not format their email quite as rigorously... (But it's generally useful to be able to switch easily, since some files are a mixture of tab styles). > > (ncurses allows you to set it in the TABSTOP variable - > > which I noticed recently is not in the manpage). > > tsk tsk tsk... ;-) ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
