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Bug 498470 - tabs are printed/copied as spaces
tabs are printed/copied as spaces
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 353610
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.18.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-11-20 12:29 UTC by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2007-11-25 05:27 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Pierre Ossman 2007-11-20 12:29:03 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When a program outputs a tab (0x09), it is presented as up to eight spaces (0x20).  This is normally not a problem, but when you select and copy the output, this transformation remains. This is a huge problem when you run diff and try to copy the output to a mail program. The whitespace damage caused be gnome-terminal makes that patch unusable.

The problem can of course be solved by piping to a file and opening it with gedit, but I'd like to be able to avoid that extra step.

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Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2007-11-25 05:27:52 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 353610 ***