Tabstops: ''Tab stops'' vs ''Tab's tops'' ?

[MaxX]

Just noticed that it could be read in both variants...
What's correct?

[Hacker]

Tabstops.

Roman

[Horst.Epp]

Wikipedia says Tab stops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_stop
Microsoft in Germany uses Tabstopps.

[petermad]

IMHO pronouncing it "Tab stops" is correct.

Actually I think the Tabstops are the imaginary stop-points between the columns. The items with text on that you can click on to change the sort order are "Tabstop Headers". Maybe it would have been better to call them "Column Headers", but that is too late to change, "Tabstop Headers" has been used for decades now with TC.

[Sir_SiLvA]

IMHO pronouncing it "Tab stops" is correct.

Actually I think the Tabstops are the imaginary stop-points between the columns. The items with text on that you can click on to change the sort order are "Tabstop Headers". Maybe it would have been better to call them "Column Headers", but that is too late to change, "Tabstop Headers" has been used for decades now with TC.

Well they started as tabs instead of colums before folder tabs where implemented at which point they SHOULD have been renamed to Column Headers to avoid confusion but thats just imho...

[petermad]

I checked TC 1.30e even back then they were called Tabstops - https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tabstopsTC130.png and https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tabstophelp130.png

[Wilhelm M.]

Well, tabstops is simply short for tabulator stops. The improtant part ist stops, not tops (which is something very different...).
(That in German - since the last "Rechtschreibreform" - it spells "Stopps" is one of the more stupid features of that "Reform", IMHO.)

[Sir_SiLvA]

I checked TC 1.30e even back then they were called Tabstops - https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tabstopsTC130.png and https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tabstophelp130.png

Exactly what I said... but they should have been renamed to column headers when folder tabs where implemented which did not exist (yet) when wc/tc was created...

[Wilhelm M.]

Exactly what I said... but they should have been renamed to column headers when folder tabs where implemented which did not exist (yet) when wc/tc was created...

Oh yes, I forgot the folder tabs. But still - what should "tabs tops" mean? The top of a folder tab? Does not make much sense.