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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

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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