Hi Eli, On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:10 PM Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> I think the application could use TAB characters to get to the next > cell, then simplistic reordering would also work. TAB handling is extremely complicated, because in terminal emulation TAB is not a character, TAB is a control instruction (like escape sequences) that moves the cursor (and jumps through the existing content, if any, without erasing it). Some terminal emulators perform some magic to remember TABs in certain circumstances, but they cannot always do so. There are plenty of other problems, e.g. how they are handled at the end of line (no, they don't wrap to the next line), how their positions are user-configurable and not necessarily at every 8th column etc., I'm not going into these details now if you don't mind, it's just not a feasible approach. cheers, egmont
