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

[Garagoth]

Likes received from MUD that begin with <tab> 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

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

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

[Heiko (koehnheiko)]

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.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

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.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Migrating issues to Github, please follow the new discussion here: https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet/issues/529

This issue needs to be closed and there is no appropriate status, so will set it to "Opinion" just for migration purposes.