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

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Mentioned it a few times in Gitter, but this appears to be an upstream 
Electron issue and they aren't using a fork. So it's up to the Electron 
folks to fix.


On 7/30/20 12:49 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hey Nolan.
>
> Did you report this problem to the VSCode developers? Maybe they can 
> apply the fix.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On 7/29/20 10:50 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> > Thank you for working so hard to figure this out!
> >
> > On 7/29/20 8:13 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > This commit fixes the problem -- though it's not a specific fix for
> > > it: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/e49659287. Not
> > > sure if it should be cherry-picked into Electron 9 or not....
> > >
> > > --joanie
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 13:35 +0200, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > > So it appears to be a regression in Chromium which was already fixed.
> > > > I'll do a bisect to figure out where the fix is. Then hopefully that
> > > > can be added to Electron 9.
> > > >
> > > > --joanie
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 11:02 +0200, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > > > 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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