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Emacs whitespace mode

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Nathaniel Braun <nathaniel.braun <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Kip Coul <kipcoul <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, Jack Morrison <JackMorrison1 <at> gmail.com>, 18548 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18548: Emacs whitespace mode
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:21:39 +0100

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Nathaniel Braun <nathaniel.braun <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This is exactly my issue! When a tab is one character, I need it to
> occupy one character, not one character plus a tab.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

This problem is still present in Emacs 29.  Here's a text mode buffer
with tabs before Foo and Bar:

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`M-x whitespace-mode':

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So switching on whitespace-mode messes up the display if there's only
room for a single character in the TAB?  This seems like such a general
problem that it's odd that this hasn't been fixed yet.  But I think I
remember somebody doing work in this area...  does anybody else
remember?

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