selecting a line that begins with <tab> char messes up screen

[vadi2]

Likes received from MUD that begin with character (like, multiple lines aligned with tabulator) render correctly.
But selecting them messes up the screen:
each tab character is selected as it would be 1 char width (and not 8 chars as it is rendered) and rest of text that follows is shifted left.

Mudlet ver: 2.0
OS: Win 7

Launchpad Details: #LP1096235 Garagoth - 2013-01-04 22:28:30 +0000

[vadi2]

See http://forums.mudlet.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2147 for a workaround

Launchpad Details: #LPC Vadim Peretokin - 2013-01-04 23:08:50 +0000

[vadi2]

Tabs cannot be represented in a useful way in MUD clients and are thus explicitly not handled and should not be used by MUDs. Users can easily use regex triggers to replace tabs by an appropiate amount of spaces. Note, this is not a bug.

Launchpad Details: #LPC Heiko - 2013-01-04 23:24:29 +0000

[vadi2]

While we still recommend that tabs aren't used due to their ambiguity, I still wouldn't want Mudlet to have any rendering bugs regardless of what the server sends.

Attaching a test case that demonstrates issues with tabs, which also differ depending on whenever text is coloured or not.

Launchpad Details: #LPC Vadim Peretokin - 2017-03-11 21:48:45 +0000

[SlySven]

Duplicate.