Martin Panter added the comment: I think it would really depend on the particular terminal. Sakura (a Unix terminal using the VTE library, like Gnome Terminal) copied the tab literally:
$ printf 'tab\ttab|sp sp\n' tab tab|sp sp <== COPIED $ hexdump -C tab tab|sp sp <== PASTED 00000000 74 61 62 09 74 61 62 7c 73 70 20 20 20 73 70 0a |tab.tab|sp sp.| 00000010 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23441> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
