svn commit: r190157 - head/sys/dev/syscons/teken
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 20 20:59:46 PDT 2009
Ed Schouten wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Fri Mar 20 14:31:08 2009
> New Revision: 190157
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/190157
>
> Log:
> Just use default behaviour on tabstops when using too many columns.
>
> It seems I didn't fix this issue before committing teken to the tree. My
> initial idea was to somehow add an error mechanism to instruct the video
> driver author to increase T_NUMCOL when using very big terminals. It
> turns out we have platforms where we have gigantic consoles on systems
> like the Apple PowerMac G5, which means we crash there right now.
>
> Just ignore tabstops placed beyond column 160. Just force tabs to be
> placed on each 8 columns.
>
Thanks for this! My console works much better now.
-Nathan
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