/* TUI support I/O functions. Copyright (C) 1998-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Hewlett-Packard Company. This file is part of GDB. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include "defs.h" #include "target.h" #include "event-loop.h" #include "event-top.h" #include "command.h" #include "top.h" #include "tui/tui.h" #include "tui/tui-data.h" #include "tui/tui-io.h" #include "tui/tui-command.h" #include "tui/tui-win.h" #include "tui/tui-wingeneral.h" #include "tui/tui-file.h" #include "tui/tui-out.h" #include "ui-out.h" #include "cli-out.h" #include #include #ifdef __MINGW32__ #include #endif #include "gdbsupport/filestuff.h" #include "completer.h" #include "gdb_curses.h" #include /* This redefines CTRL if it is not already defined, so it must come after terminal state releated include files like and "gdb_curses.h". */ #include "readline/readline.h" #ifdef __MINGW32__ static SHORT ncurses_norm_attr; #endif static int tui_getc (FILE *fp); static int key_is_start_sequence (int ch) { return (ch == 27); } /* Use definition from readline 4.3. */ #undef CTRL_CHAR #define CTRL_CHAR(c) \ ((c) < control_character_threshold && (((c) & 0x80) == 0)) /* This file controls the IO interactions between gdb and curses. When the TUI is enabled, gdb has two modes a curses and a standard mode. In curses mode, the gdb outputs are made in a curses command window. For this, the gdb_stdout and gdb_stderr are redirected to the specific ui_file implemented by TUI. The output is handled by tui_puts(). The input is also controlled by curses with tui_getc(). The readline library uses this function to get its input. Several readline hooks are installed to redirect readline output to the TUI (see also the note below). In normal mode, the gdb outputs are restored to their origin, that is as if TUI is not used. Readline also uses its original getc() function with stdin. Note SCz/2001-07-21: the current readline is not clean in its management of the output. Even if we install a redisplay handler, it sometimes writes on a stdout file. It is important to redirect every output produced by readline, otherwise the curses window will be garbled. This is implemented with a pipe that TUI reads and readline writes to. A gdb input handler is created so that reading the pipe is handled automatically. This will probably not work on non-Unix platforms. The best fix is to make readline clean enougth so that is never write on stdout. Note SCz/2002-09-01: we now use more readline hooks and it seems that with them we don't need the pipe anymore (verified by creating the pipe and closing its end so that write causes a SIGPIPE). The old pipe code is still there and can be conditionally removed by #undef TUI_USE_PIPE_FOR_READLINE. */ /* For gdb 5.3, prefer to continue the pipe hack as a backup wheel. */ #ifdef HAVE_PIPE #define TUI_USE_PIPE_FOR_READLINE #endif /* #undef TUI_USE_PIPE_FOR_READLINE */ /* TUI output files. */ static struct ui_file *tui_stdout; static struct ui_file *tui_stderr; struct ui_out *tui_out; /* GDB output files in non-curses mode. */ static struct ui_file *tui_old_stdout; static struct ui_file *tui_old_stderr; cli_ui_out *tui_old_uiout; /* Readline previous hooks. */ static rl_getc_func_t *tui_old_rl_getc_function; static rl_voidfunc_t *tui_old_rl_redisplay_function; static rl_vintfunc_t *tui_old_rl_prep_terminal; static rl_voidfunc_t *tui_old_rl_deprep_terminal; static rl_compdisp_func_t *tui_old_rl_display_matches_hook; static int tui_old_rl_echoing_p; /* Readline output stream. Should be removed when readline is clean. */ static FILE *tui_rl_outstream; static FILE *tui_old_rl_outstream; #ifdef TUI_USE_PIPE_FOR_READLINE static int tui_readline_pipe[2]; #endif /* The last gdb prompt that was registered in readline. This may be the main gdb prompt or a secondary prompt. */ static char *tui_rl_saved_prompt; /* Print a character in the curses command window. The output is buffered. It is up to the caller to refresh the screen if necessary. */ static void do_tui_putc (WINDOW *w, char c) { static int tui_skip_line = -1; /* Catch annotation and discard them. We need two \032 and discard until a \n is seen. */ if (c == '\032') { tui_skip_line++; } else if (tui_skip_line != 1) { tui_skip_line = -1; /* Expand TABs, since ncurses on MS-Windows doesn't. */ if (c == '\t') { int col; col = getcurx (w); do { waddch (w, ' '); col++; } while ((col % 8) != 0); } else waddch (w, c); } else if (c == '\n') tui_skip_line = -1; } /* Update the cached value of the command window's start line based on the window's current Y coordinate. */ static void update_cmdwin_start_line () { TUI_CMD_WIN->start_line = getcury (TUI_CMD_WIN->handle); } /* Print a character in the curses command window. The output is buffered. It is up to the caller to refresh the screen if necessary. */ static void tui_putc (char c) { WINDOW *w = TUI_CMD_WIN->handle; do_tui_putc (w, c); update_cmdwin_start_line (); } /* This maps colors to their corresponding color index. */ static std::map color_map; /* This holds a pair of colors and is used to track the mapping between a color pair index and the actual colors. */ struct color_pair { int fg; int bg; bool operator< (const color_pair &o) const { return fg < o.fg || (fg == o.fg && bg < o.bg); } }; /* This maps pairs of colors to their corresponding color pair index. */ static std::map color_pair_map; /* This is indexed by ANSI color offset from the base color, and holds the corresponding curses color constant. */ static const int curses_colors[] = { COLOR_BLACK, COLOR_RED, COLOR_GREEN, COLOR_YELLOW, COLOR_BLUE, COLOR_MAGENTA, COLOR_CYAN, COLOR_WHITE }; /* Given a color, find its index. */ static bool get_color (const ui_file_style::color &color, int *result) { if (color.is_none ()) *result = -1; else if (color.is_basic ()) *result = curses_colors[color.get_value ()]; else { auto it = color_map.find (color); if (it == color_map.end ()) { /* The first 8 colors are standard. */ int next = color_map.size () + 8; if (next >= COLORS) return false; uint8_t rgb[3]; color.get_rgb (rgb); /* We store RGB as 0..255, but curses wants 0..1000. */ if (init_color (next, rgb[0] * 1000 / 255, rgb[1] * 1000 / 255, rgb[2] * 1000 / 255) == ERR) return false; color_map[color] = next; *result = next; } else *result = it->second; } return true; } /* The most recently emitted color pair. */ static int last_color_pair = -1; /* The most recently applied style. */ static ui_file_style last_style; /* If true, we're highlighting the current source line in reverse video mode. */ static bool reverse_mode_p = false; /* The background/foreground colors before we entered reverse mode. */ static ui_file_style::color reverse_save_bg (ui_file_style::NONE); static ui_file_style::color reverse_save_fg (ui_file_style::NONE); /* Given two colors, return their color pair index; making a new one if necessary. */ static int get_color_pair (int fg, int bg) { color_pair c = { fg, bg }; auto it = color_pair_map.find (c); if (it == color_pair_map.end ()) { /* Color pair 0 is our default color, so new colors start at 1. */ int next = color_pair_map.size () + 1; /* Curses has a limited number of available color pairs. Fall back to the default if we've used too many. */ if (next >= COLOR_PAIRS) return 0; init_pair (next, fg, bg); color_pair_map[c] = next; return next; } return it->second; } /* Apply STYLE to W. */ static void apply_style (WINDOW *w, ui_file_style style) { /* Reset. */ wattron (w, A_NORMAL); wattroff (w, A_BOLD); wattroff (w, A_DIM); wattroff (w, A_REVERSE); if (last_color_pair != -1) wattroff (w, COLOR_PAIR (last_color_pair)); wattron (w, COLOR_PAIR (0)); const ui_file_style::color &fg = style.get_foreground (); const ui_file_style::color &bg = style.get_background (); if (!fg.is_none () || !bg.is_none ()) { int fgi, bgi; if (get_color (fg, &fgi) && get_color (bg, &bgi)) { #ifdef __MINGW32__ /* MS-Windows port of ncurses doesn't support implicit default foreground and background colors, so we must specify them explicitly when needed, using the colors we saw at startup. */ if (fgi == -1) fgi = ncurses_norm_attr & 15; if (bgi == -1) bgi = (ncurses_norm_attr >> 4) & 15; #endif int pair = get_color_pair (fgi, bgi); if (last_color_pair != -1) wattroff (w, COLOR_PAIR (last_color_pair)); wattron (w, COLOR_PAIR (pair)); last_color_pair = pair; } } switch (style.get_intensity ()) { case ui_file_style::NORMAL: break; case ui_file_style::BOLD: wattron (w, A_BOLD); break; case ui_file_style::DIM: wattron (w, A_DIM); break; default: gdb_assert_not_reached ("invalid intensity"); } if (style.is_reverse ()) wattron (w, A_REVERSE); last_style = style; } /* Apply an ANSI escape sequence from BUF to W. BUF must start with the ESC character. If BUF does not start with an ANSI escape, return 0. Otherwise, apply the sequence if it is recognized, or simply ignore it if not. In this case, the number of bytes read from BUF is returned. */ static size_t apply_ansi_escape (WINDOW *w, const char *buf) { ui_file_style style = last_style; size_t n_read; if (!style.parse (buf, &n_read)) return n_read; if (reverse_mode_p) { /* We want to reverse _only_ the default foreground/background colors. If the foreground color is not the default (because the text was styled), we want to leave it as is. If e.g., the terminal is fg=BLACK, and bg=WHITE, and the style wants to print text in RED, we want to reverse the background color (print in BLACK), but still print the text in RED. To do that, we enable the A_REVERSE attribute, and re-reverse the parsed-style's fb/bg colors. Notes on the approach: - there's no portable way to know which colors the default fb/bg colors map to. - this approach does the right thing even if you change the terminal colors while GDB is running -- the reversed colors automatically adapt. */ if (!style.is_default ()) { ui_file_style::color bg = style.get_background (); ui_file_style::color fg = style.get_foreground (); style.set_fg (bg); style.set_bg (fg); } /* Enable A_REVERSE. */ style.set_reverse (true); } apply_style (w, style); return n_read; } /* See tui.io.h. */ void tui_set_reverse_mode (WINDOW *w, bool reverse) { ui_file_style style = last_style; reverse_mode_p = reverse; style.set_reverse (reverse); if (reverse) { reverse_save_bg = style.get_background (); reverse_save_fg = style.get_foreground (); } else { style.set_bg (reverse_save_bg); style.set_fg (reverse_save_fg); } apply_style (w, style); } /* Print LENGTH characters from the buffer pointed to by BUF to the curses command window. The output is buffered. It is up to the caller to refresh the screen if necessary. */ void tui_write (const char *buf, size_t length) { /* We need this to be \0-terminated for the regexp matching. */ std::string copy (buf, length); tui_puts (copy.c_str ()); } static void tui_puts_internal (WINDOW *w, const char *string, int *height) { char c; int prev_col = 0; while ((c = *string++) != 0) { if (c == '\1' || c == '\2') { /* Ignore these, they are readline escape-marking sequences. */ } else { if (c == '\033') { size_t bytes_read = apply_ansi_escape (w, string - 1); if (bytes_read > 0) { string = string + bytes_read - 1; continue; } } do_tui_putc (w, c); if (height != nullptr) { int col = getcurx (w); if (col <= prev_col) ++*height; prev_col = col; } } } update_cmdwin_start_line (); } /* Print a string in the curses command window. The output is buffered. It is up to the caller to refresh the screen if necessary. */ void tui_puts (const char *string, WINDOW *w) { if (w == nullptr) w = TUI_CMD_WIN->handle; tui_puts_internal (w, string, nullptr); } /* Readline callback. Redisplay the command line with its prompt after readline has changed the edited text. */ void tui_redisplay_readline (void) { int prev_col; int height; int col; int c_pos; int c_line; int in; WINDOW *w; const char *prompt; int start_line; /* Detect when we temporarily left SingleKey and now the readline edit buffer is empty, automatically restore the SingleKey mode. The restore must only be done if the command has finished. The command could call prompt_for_continue and we must not restore SingleKey so that the prompt and normal keymap are used. */ if (tui_current_key_mode == TUI_ONE_COMMAND_MODE && rl_end == 0 && !gdb_in_secondary_prompt_p (current_ui)) tui_set_key_mode (TUI_SINGLE_KEY_MODE); if (tui_current_key_mode == TUI_SINGLE_KEY_MODE) prompt = ""; else prompt = tui_rl_saved_prompt; c_pos = -1; c_line = -1; w = TUI_CMD_WIN->handle; start_line = TUI_CMD_WIN->start_line; wmove (w, start_line, 0); prev_col = 0; height = 1; if (prompt != nullptr) tui_puts_internal (TUI_CMD_WIN->handle, prompt, &height); prev_col = getcurx (w); for (in = 0; in <= rl_end; in++) { unsigned char c; if (in == rl_point) { getyx (w, c_line, c_pos); } if (in == rl_end) break; c = (unsigned char) rl_line_buffer[in]; if (CTRL_CHAR (c) || c == RUBOUT) { waddch (w, '^'); waddch (w, CTRL_CHAR (c) ? UNCTRL (c) : '?'); } else if (c == '\t') { /* Expand TABs, since ncurses on MS-Windows doesn't. */ col = getcurx (w); do { waddch (w, ' '); col++; } while ((col % 8) != 0); } else { waddch (w, c); } if (c == '\n') TUI_CMD_WIN->start_line = getcury (w); col = getcurx (w); if (col < prev_col) height++; prev_col = col; } wclrtobot (w); TUI_CMD_WIN->start_line = getcury (w); if (c_line >= 0) wmove (w, c_line, c_pos); TUI_CMD_WIN->start_line -= height - 1; wrefresh (w); fflush(stdout); } /* Readline callback to prepare the terminal. It is called once each time we enter readline. Terminal is already setup in curses mode. */ static void tui_prep_terminal (int notused1) { /* Save the prompt registered in readline to correctly display it. (we can't use gdb_prompt() due to secondary prompts and can't use rl_prompt because it points to an alloca buffer). */ xfree (tui_rl_saved_prompt); tui_rl_saved_prompt = rl_prompt != NULL ? xstrdup (rl_prompt) : NULL; } /* Readline callback to restore the terminal. It is called once each time we leave readline. There is nothing to do in curses mode. */ static void tui_deprep_terminal (void) { } #ifdef TUI_USE_PIPE_FOR_READLINE /* Read readline output pipe and feed the command window with it. Should be removed when readline is clean. */ static void tui_readline_output (int error, gdb_client_data data) { int size; char buf[256]; size = read (tui_readline_pipe[0], buf, sizeof (buf) - 1); if (size > 0 && tui_active) { buf[size] = 0; tui_puts (buf); } } #endif /* TUI version of displayer.crlf. */ static void tui_mld_crlf (const struct match_list_displayer *displayer) { tui_putc ('\n'); } /* TUI version of displayer.putch. */ static void tui_mld_putch (const struct match_list_displayer *displayer, int ch) { tui_putc (ch); } /* TUI version of displayer.puts. */ static void tui_mld_puts (const struct match_list_displayer *displayer, const char *s) { tui_puts (s); } /* TUI version of displayer.flush. */ static void tui_mld_flush (const struct match_list_displayer *displayer) { wrefresh (TUI_CMD_WIN->handle); } /* TUI version of displayer.erase_entire_line. */ static void tui_mld_erase_entire_line (const struct match_list_displayer *displayer) { WINDOW *w = TUI_CMD_WIN->handle; int cur_y = getcury (w); wmove (w, cur_y, 0); wclrtoeol (w); wmove (w, cur_y, 0); } /* TUI version of displayer.beep. */ static void tui_mld_beep (const struct match_list_displayer *displayer) { beep (); } /* A wrapper for wgetch that enters nonl mode. We We normally want curses' "nl" mode, but when reading from the user, we'd like to differentiate between C-j and C-m, because some users bind these keys differently in their .inputrc. So, put curses into nonl mode just when reading from the user. See PR tui/20819. */ static int gdb_wgetch (WINDOW *win) { nonl (); int r = wgetch (win); nl (); return r; } /* Helper function for tui_mld_read_key. This temporarily replaces tui_getc for use during tab-completion match list display. */ static int tui_mld_getc (FILE *fp) { WINDOW *w = TUI_CMD_WIN->handle; int c = gdb_wgetch (w); return c; } /* TUI version of displayer.read_key. */ static int tui_mld_read_key (const struct match_list_displayer *displayer) { rl_getc_func_t *prev = rl_getc_function; int c; /* We can't use tui_getc as we need NEWLINE to not get emitted. */ rl_getc_function = tui_mld_getc; c = rl_read_key (); rl_getc_function = prev; return c; } /* TUI version of rl_completion_display_matches_hook. See gdb_display_match_list for a description of the arguments. */ static void tui_rl_display_match_list (char **matches, int len, int max) { struct match_list_displayer displayer; rl_get_screen_size (&displayer.height, &displayer.width); displayer.crlf = tui_mld_crlf; displayer.putch = tui_mld_putch; displayer.puts = tui_mld_puts; displayer.flush = tui_mld_flush; displayer.erase_entire_line = tui_mld_erase_entire_line; displayer.beep = tui_mld_beep; displayer.read_key = tui_mld_read_key; gdb_display_match_list (matches, len, max, &displayer); } /* Setup the IO for curses or non-curses mode. - In non-curses mode, readline and gdb use the standard input and standard output/error directly. - In curses mode, the standard output/error is controlled by TUI with the tui_stdout and tui_stderr. The output is redirected in the curses command window. Several readline callbacks are installed so that readline asks for its input to the curses command window with wgetch(). */ void tui_setup_io (int mode) { extern int _rl_echoing_p; if (mode) { /* Redirect readline to TUI. */ tui_old_rl_redisplay_function = rl_redisplay_function; tui_old_rl_deprep_terminal = rl_deprep_term_function; tui_old_rl_prep_terminal = rl_prep_term_function; tui_old_rl_getc_function = rl_getc_function; tui_old_rl_display_matches_hook = rl_completion_display_matches_hook; tui_old_rl_outstream = rl_outstream; tui_old_rl_echoing_p = _rl_echoing_p; rl_redisplay_function = tui_redisplay_readline; rl_deprep_term_function = tui_deprep_terminal; rl_prep_term_function = tui_prep_terminal; rl_getc_function = tui_getc; _rl_echoing_p = 0; rl_outstream = tui_rl_outstream; rl_prompt = 0; rl_completion_display_matches_hook = tui_rl_display_match_list; rl_already_prompted = 0; /* Keep track of previous gdb output. */ tui_old_stdout = gdb_stdout; tui_old_stderr = gdb_stderr; tui_old_uiout = dynamic_cast (current_uiout); gdb_assert (tui_old_uiout != nullptr); /* Reconfigure gdb output. */ gdb_stdout = tui_stdout; gdb_stderr = tui_stderr; gdb_stdlog = gdb_stdout; /* for moment */ gdb_stdtarg = gdb_stderr; /* for moment */ gdb_stdtargerr = gdb_stderr; /* for moment */ current_uiout = tui_out; /* Save tty for SIGCONT. */ savetty (); } else { /* Restore gdb output. */ gdb_stdout = tui_old_stdout; gdb_stderr = tui_old_stderr; gdb_stdlog = gdb_stdout; /* for moment */ gdb_stdtarg = gdb_stderr; /* for moment */ gdb_stdtargerr = gdb_stderr; /* for moment */ current_uiout = tui_old_uiout; /* Restore readline. */ rl_redisplay_function = tui_old_rl_redisplay_function; rl_deprep_term_function = tui_old_rl_deprep_terminal; rl_prep_term_function = tui_old_rl_prep_terminal; rl_getc_function = tui_old_rl_getc_function; rl_completion_display_matches_hook = tui_old_rl_display_matches_hook; rl_outstream = tui_old_rl_outstream; _rl_echoing_p = tui_old_rl_echoing_p; rl_already_prompted = 0; /* Save tty for SIGCONT. */ savetty (); /* Clean up color information. */ last_color_pair = -1; last_style = ui_file_style (); color_map.clear (); color_pair_map.clear (); } } #ifdef SIGCONT /* Catch SIGCONT to restore the terminal and refresh the screen. */ static void tui_cont_sig (int sig) { if (tui_active) { /* Restore the terminal setting because another process (shell) might have changed it. */ resetty (); /* Force a refresh of the screen. */ tui_refresh_all_win (); wrefresh (TUI_CMD_WIN->handle); } signal (sig, tui_cont_sig); } #endif /* Initialize the IO for gdb in curses mode. */ void tui_initialize_io (void) { #ifdef SIGCONT signal (SIGCONT, tui_cont_sig); #endif /* Create tui output streams. */ tui_stdout = new tui_file (stdout); tui_stderr = new tui_file (stderr); tui_out = tui_out_new (tui_stdout); /* Create the default UI. */ tui_old_uiout = cli_out_new (gdb_stdout); #ifdef TUI_USE_PIPE_FOR_READLINE /* Temporary solution for readline writing to stdout: redirect readline output in a pipe, read that pipe and output the content in the curses command window. */ if (gdb_pipe_cloexec (tui_readline_pipe) != 0) error (_("Cannot create pipe for readline")); tui_rl_outstream = fdopen (tui_readline_pipe[1], "w"); if (tui_rl_outstream == 0) error (_("Cannot redirect readline output")); setvbuf (tui_rl_outstream, NULL, _IOLBF, 0); #ifdef O_NONBLOCK (void) fcntl (tui_readline_pipe[0], F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK); #else #ifdef O_NDELAY (void) fcntl (tui_readline_pipe[0], F_SETFL, O_NDELAY); #endif #endif add_file_handler (tui_readline_pipe[0], tui_readline_output, 0); #else tui_rl_outstream = stdout; #endif #ifdef __MINGW32__ /* MS-Windows port of ncurses doesn't support default foreground and background colors, so we must record the default colors at startup. */ HANDLE hstdout = (HANDLE)_get_osfhandle (fileno (stdout)); DWORD cmode; CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi; if (hstdout != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE && GetConsoleMode (hstdout, &cmode) != 0 && GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo (hstdout, &csbi)) ncurses_norm_attr = csbi.wAttributes; #endif } /* Get a character from the command window. This is called from the readline package. */ static int tui_getc (FILE *fp) { int ch; WINDOW *w; w = TUI_CMD_WIN->handle; #ifdef TUI_USE_PIPE_FOR_READLINE /* Flush readline output. */ tui_readline_output (0, 0); #endif ch = gdb_wgetch (w); /* The \n must be echoed because it will not be printed by readline. */ if (ch == '\n' || ch == '\r') { /* When hitting return with an empty input, gdb executes the last command. If we emit a newline, this fills up the command window with empty lines with gdb prompt at beginning. Instead of that, stay on the same line but provide a visual effect to show the user we recognized the command. */ if (rl_end == 0 && !gdb_in_secondary_prompt_p (current_ui)) { wmove (w, getcury (w), 0); /* Clear the line. This will blink the gdb prompt since it will be redrawn at the same line. */ wclrtoeol (w); wrefresh (w); napms (20); } else { /* Move cursor to the end of the command line before emitting the newline. We need to do so because when ncurses outputs a newline it truncates any text that appears past the end of the cursor. */ int px, py; getyx (w, py, px); px += rl_end - rl_point; py += px / TUI_CMD_WIN->width; px %= TUI_CMD_WIN->width; wmove (w, py, px); tui_putc ('\n'); } } /* Handle prev/next/up/down here. */ ch = tui_dispatch_ctrl_char (ch); if (ch == KEY_BACKSPACE) return '\b'; if (current_ui->command_editing && key_is_start_sequence (ch)) { int ch_pending; nodelay (w, TRUE); ch_pending = gdb_wgetch (w); nodelay (w, FALSE); /* If we have pending input following a start sequence, call the stdin event handler again because ncurses may have already read and stored the input into its internal buffer, meaning that we won't get an stdin event for it. If we don't compensate for this missed stdin event, key sequences as Alt_F (^[f) will not behave promptly. (We only compensates for the missed 2nd byte of a key sequence because 2-byte sequences are by far the most commonly used. ncurses may have buffered a larger, 3+-byte key sequence though it remains to be seen whether it is useful to compensate for all the bytes of such sequences.) */ if (ch_pending != ERR) { ungetch (ch_pending); call_stdin_event_handler_again_p = 1; } } return ch; } /* Utility function to expand TABs in a STRING into spaces. STRING will be displayed starting at column COL, and is assumed to include no newlines. The returned expanded string is malloc'ed. */ char * tui_expand_tabs (const char *string, int col) { int n_adjust, ncol; const char *s; char *ret, *q; /* 1. How many additional characters do we need? */ for (ncol = col, n_adjust = 0, s = string; s; ) { s = strpbrk (s, "\t"); if (s) { ncol += (s - string) + n_adjust; /* Adjustment for the next tab stop, minus one for the TAB we replace with spaces. */ n_adjust += 8 - (ncol % 8) - 1; s++; } } /* Allocate the copy. */ ret = q = (char *) xmalloc (strlen (string) + n_adjust + 1); /* 2. Copy the original string while replacing TABs with spaces. */ for (ncol = col, s = string; s; ) { const char *s1 = strpbrk (s, "\t"); if (s1) { if (s1 > s) { strncpy (q, s, s1 - s); q += s1 - s; ncol += s1 - s; } do { *q++ = ' '; ncol++; } while ((ncol % 8) != 0); s1++; } else strcpy (q, s); s = s1; } return ret; }