XTerm strangeness

[Brett Worth]

Well its Friday afternoon and its time for me to ask a really lame
question.  I've had a nagging problem with XTerms not setting their tabs
correctly.  Here's an example:

1. Open a brand new xterm at 80x24
2. Run: printf "\t|\t|\t|\t|\t|\t|\t|\t|\t|\t|\t|\t|\t|\n"
3. Note where the |'s are
4. Resize the xterm to about 120x24
5. Repeat step 2.
6. Note the lack of TABs past 80 columns
7. Do a <CTRL> middle click and "Do Full Reset"
8. Repeat step 2.

If the default is to have tab stops at 8 column intevals then why wouldn't
a resized xterm also get them?

This is different from the bahaviour on Solaris and on XFree86 on FreeBSD.
With both of those you do get the extra tab stops after the resize.  This
is why "ls" in my resized windows have been looking like crap.  Am I
missing something?

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Brett

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