GNU bug report logs - #12067
24.1; improper menu formatting with multiple \t chars

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:58:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>, "'Michael Heerdegen'" <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 12067 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12067: 24.1; improper menu formatting with multiple \t chars
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:10:50 -0700

> 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.

I thought of that, but menu items are often realized using proportional fonts.

What is really needed, I guess, is the equivalent of `move-to-column'.
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