[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59916] Embedded tabs are executed when code is pasted in to command window

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #59916 (project octave):

[comment #11 comment #11:]
> ... it would be nice to disable tab as a special character when we know we
are pasting text.

Totally agree to this.

At the moment I cannot imagine a very concrete scenario of mine and I strive
to avoid tabs wherever possible, I just thought of Makefiles which literally
need a tab [controllable by ".RECIPEPREFIX"
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Special-Variables.html].

Is it possible to throw a warning when tabs get replaced by spaces.  Making a
check if a string contains literal tabs is on the level of user input not a
performance killer I think.  Otherwise debugging potential problems with this
becomes very difficult.


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