Tabstops

Type

Text

The Tabstops switch specifies variable tab stops used by the Tab and Backtab functions. Tab moves the cursor to the next tab stop; Backtab moves the cursor to the previous tab stop.

Note that the Tabstops switch has no effect on the handling of tab (ASCII 9) characters in a file.

Syntax

Tabstops: [[tabwidth]]...repeat

tabwidth

The width of a tab stop. You can repeat tabwidth for as many tab stops as will fit on a PWB line (250 characters).

repeat

The width of every tab stop after the explicitly listed tab stops.A value of 0 for repeat specifies that there are no tab stops after the list of tabwidth settings. When the cursor is past the last tab stop, the Tab function does nothing.

Default

Tabstops:4

Update

In PWB 1.x, Tabstops is a numeric switch specifying a single value, equivalent to the repeat value in PWB 2.0. The default PWB 2.00 Tabstops setting mimics the default behavior of PWB 1.x.

Example

The Tabstops switch setting

Tabstops:4

sets a tab stop every four columns.

Example

The setting

Tabstops:3 4 7 8

sets a tab stop at columns 4, 8, 15, and every eight columns thereafter.

Example

The setting

Tabstops:3 4 7 25 25 0

sets a tab stop at columns 4, 8, 15, 40, and 65. When the cursor is past column 65, the Tab function does nothing.

See

Backtab, Entab, Filetab, Realtabs, Tab