Setting And Clearing Tabs - HP 262SA Reference Manual

Display Control
From the keyboard, you set and clear the margins using the
margi ns /tab/col
set offunction
keys. To get to that set, use the following keystroke sequence:
lII,margins/tabs/col.
To change the left or right margin, move the cursor to the desired column and press the
appropriate function key
(LEFT MARG 11' 1
or
RIGHT MARG I H).
To reset the left margin to column
1 and the right margin to column 80, press
CLR ALL MARGINS.
If you attempt to set either margin incorrectly with relation to the other (e.g., the right
margin to the left of the left margin), the terminal rejects it with an audible ((beep".
From a program executing in a host computer, you set and clear the margins using the
following escape sequences:
SET LEFT MARGIN:
Ec 4
SET RIGHT MARGIN:
Ec
5
CLEAR ALL MARGINS:
Ec 9
The first two escape sequences set the left and right margin (respectively) at the current
cursor position. Therefore, before using them, you will first have to position the cursor at the
desired column using one of the cursor control escape sequences described earlier in this
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section. )
SETTING AND CLEARING TABS
Within the active workspace you can define a series of tab stops to which you'can move the
cursor using the tab and back tab functions (described as separate topics later in this sec-
tion).
From the keyboard, you set and clear tab stops using the margins/tabs/col set of function
keys. To get to that set, use the following keystroke sequence:
lII,margins/tabs/col.
To set a tab stop, move the cursor to the desired column and then press the
SET TAB
key. To
clear a tab stop, move the cursor to the tab stop and then press
CLEAR TAB.
To clear all
existing tab stops, press
CLR ALL TABS.
Note that the left margin is always an implicit tab
stop and is not affected by the
CLR ALL TABS
key.
Tab stops that do not lie within the area bounded by the left and right margins are ignored
when the tab or back tab functions are performed.
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