Re: trouble with tabs [Re: Trouble with global-set-key to map meta-g with 'goto-line]

[Miles Bader]

Sven Urbanski <inf8237@fh-wedel.de> writes:
> No, it uses 8. The problem is the combination of a character (in this
> example a space) and a tab. That combo produces a tab which is only 7 chars
> long (because the space is also taken into account).

Why is there a problem?  Stefan's (space-only) text took that effect into
account, so in his post things line up perfectly.

Of course in the _followups_ to Stefan's post, which quote the whole
mess, things aren't lined up correctly (because the extra quotation
prefix shifts his space-space only text, but not the preceeding
tab-using text) ... but that's presumably not what Barry was complaining
about.

To be honest I don't know what Barry was complaining about, unless it's
perhaps "This damn MUA uses non-fixed-width fonts!"  That's a complaint
I also have with e.g. gmail, but surely the answer is "fix the MUA."

-Miles
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