Re: [orca-list] Whose issue is this? Tabs present as spaces in latest code-insiders.

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

I'll look into it. Thanks for the report!
--joanie

On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 09:31 -0500, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> As of the middle of last week, I believe code-insiders bumped to 
> Electron 9. Shortly on or around that day. I noticed Orca presenting 
> tabs (I.e. \t) as spaces. So lines with two actual tab characters 
> presented as "2 spaces <text of line>". This is a bit confusing,
> since I 
> work in a number of languages, and each has default format
> conventions 
> which use either spaces or tabs. The exact same version of Orca
> behaves 
> fine under stable VSCode.
>
>
> Wondering if something changed in later Chromium versions that 
> determines how spaces and tabs are presented? It certainly isn't a 
> showstopper, but I think it is significant enough that it should be 
> flagged somewhere--any Orca users working with languages using \t
> for 
> tabs should probably be aware that code-insiders will behave oddly.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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