Subject: bug#12067: 24.1; improper menu formatting with multiple \t chars

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:58:58 +0300

> From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:51:31 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > > A third version: I see no artifacts, but also no nice alignment.  Looks
> > > like tab chars are formatted for me as spaces with constant width.  (I
> > > use emacs-snapshot on Debian.)
> >
> > Please state the toolkit that was used to build Emacs.  This issue is
> > definitely toolkit-dependent.
> 
> GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
>  of 2012-07-21 on keller, modified by Debian

Thanks.

If we care about this issue, we could perhaps expand TABs into the
appropriate number of spaces, before passing the menu items to the
toolkit.