Subject: PCVT stuff, tabstops, lockout, text-mode mouse?
To: None <hm@hcs.de>
From: VaX#n8 <vax@linkdead.paranoia.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/16/1996 01:24:08
I've got a few probs with PCVT (which is, I might add, extremely useful -
don't know how I got by without it or X).

tabstops seem a little strange.  If I "ls", like this (filenames changed
to protect the innocent):

@		XXXXXXX		XXXX.XXXXXX	XXXXXXX		XXX
XXXX		XXX		XXXXXXX		XXX

Then the second column of the first row is not tabbed over far enough.
If I cat the output from a file, same deal.
If I "less" the file, it works as expected.

It _looks_ like this:

@          XXXXXXX                (....)
XXXX            XXX               (....)

Also, how hard would it be to add a text-mode mouse cursor that supports
cut & paste?  Linux has this & I bet it's pretty nice (sorry, iscreen
hurts my ctrl-A fingers).  I might be willing to do it if the learning
curve isn't too bad.

Also, what about a full-console (all vt) key combo to lock the terminal,
or log out (SIGHUP each session leader?), or something like that
(not BRS :).

Thanks...