In Ubuntu Intrepid deepspring reported:

GEdit appears to be ignoring tab indentation in source code files. Refer to attached screenshot.

On the left, GVim renders the source code correctly.

One the right, GEdit ignores some of the tab indentation, incorrectly rendering the source code.

Changing the formatting in GEdit to fix the problem results in an incorrect number of tabs being used for indentation. For example (using "_" as whitespace):

____def myfunction(somevar, somevar2):
________if somevar == somevar2:
____________print "The vars contents are the same"

Looks like the following when the file is opened in nano, vi, gvim, emacs, editra (again using "_" for whitespace:

____def myfunction(somevar, somevar2):
______________if somevar == somevar2:
______________print "The vars contents are the same"

Launchpad ref: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/349187

Thanks