Re: mutt eats tabs
On 2008-09-25, Lin Tan <lintan2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > No, it doesn't. At least not in my experience. Are you observing
> > this in mail that you send from mutt, or in mail that you read using
> > mutt? What are you doing when you observe spaces where you think
> > there should be tabs?
> >
>
> I used command "mutt lintan2@xxxxxxxxxxxx < patch" to send myself an email.
> And then I used mutt "v" and "s" command to save it as a file, say
> patch.saved.
>
> I noticed that all the tabs in file "patch" are replaced by blanks
> in "patch.saved". I tested that the "patch" can be applied
> correctly but the "patch.saved" can not. Then I manually replaced
> all the blanks in "patch.saved" with tabs, and then it can be
> applied without an error.
>
> my muttrc file is only a few lines:
>
> set send_charset="us-ascii:utf-8"
>
> set editor="vi"
>
> set spoolfile=imaps://username@server:993/INBOX
> set folder=imaps://username@server:993
>
> # Default From:
> my_hdr From: lintan2@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the clear description. I can't argue with your
observations. I can't replicate them with my setup, though. I
created a file containing a paragraph of text indented by tabs and
mailed it to myself as you did with your patch. I saved the
received message using "v" and "s", also as you did. The tabs were
still there.
I also saved the message to a new mbox folder, "test_folder", using
"s" in the index view, and verified that the tabs were still there.
Then I quit that mutt and started a new one like this:
mutt -F /dev/null -f test_folder
I executed all the configuration commands you listed above. Then I
saved the message again using "v" and "s". The tabs are still
there.
I'm using mutt 1.5.17.
I'm afraid I can't help. Maybe someone else on the list can
replicate this and/or explain what's going on.
Regards,
Gary