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Support rendering of tab characters in terminal

See original GitHub issue

Downstream: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/29523

node -e "console.log('a\tb')" should output an actual tab. This means it’s considered a single character by the selection logic and that it’s copied as a \t char not several spaces. This probably won’t be too difficult to deal with by leveraging and improving upon the double width char code.

This is supported by gnome-terminal, Terminal.app and iTerm2.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:14 (9 by maintainers)

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hansvonncommented, Jan 27, 2019

@Tyriar It depends on what perspective you come from. At least for me I expect tabs to be copied when that was what I pushed to the console. I often do this when I want to generate tab delimited data using powershell. As it is now I use regex to replace spaces with tabs which is just another step.

I can understand where you are coming from in how consoles used to function. I can also understand how many other things you all have to work on. I appreciate all the good work!

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daiyamcommented, Aug 21, 2021

I’m finding this issue annoying when printing (cat) a file containing tab characters. I will try to make a PR to fix that issue.