Tabs
Set Tabs ^char HP [ ON | OFF ]
(Default: Control-I, HP ON)
When you enter lines in Add, Modify, or Replace, Qedit looks for and interprets “tab” keys. Each time Qedit finds a “tab”, it fills the input line with blanks to the next tab position. The default positions are every ten columns. If there are no more positions, Qedit terminates the current line and saves the remaining text for the next line.
Using Set Tabs, you can define the logical “tab” key to be any nonprinting control code such as BELL (^G, decimal 7) or a printing character such as tilde (~). Control-I is the default because it is the character most commonly used as the hardware TAB key on terminals. All HP terminals generate a Control-I when TAB is pressed.
/set tabs ^i /set tabs "~"
Set Tabs Hp Off tells Qedit not to set physical tab stops on your terminal (for example it does not work on 2640 or non-HP terminals). With Set Tab Hp On (the default), Qedit will update your terminal’s tab stops at once. With Hp On, each time you switch from Add to AQ (or any similar change that would shift the tabs left or right on the screen), Qedit also resets the tab stops.
When using the TAB Key, remember that you must not backspace past the last tab stop. If you do, Qedit will never see the TAB key.
Set Tabs STOP columns | NULL | nn nn nn nn …
(Default: every 10 columns
NULL means no tabs)
By default, Qedit sets the tab stops every 10 columns (MPE) or 8 columns (HP-UX). You can override this with Set Tabs NULL to set no tab stops, Set Tabs STOP n (every 2 to 15 columns), or Set Tabs with a custom list of column numbers. The maximum number of custom tab stops is 32. Remember that the columns of input text are numbered differently depending on the source language. In SPL, Pascal, FORTRAN, RPG, Text, Data and Job, the first column is numbered 1; in standard COBOL, it is 7. You cannot set a tab in the first column.
/set tabs stop 8 {every 8 columns (9 17 25 33 ...)} /set tabs 5 10 15 {SPL,FORTRAN,RPG,Job,Text,Pas} /set tabs 12 16 20 {COBOL} /set tabs null {cancel all tabs}