This is an important problem, and I think we need to fix it. I cannot reproduce it myself, since I don't have a new version of X.
It surprises me that any any version of X can tell whether the Emacs buffer contains tabs or spaces. Emacs handles tabs by displaying spaces (or at least, it used to); by the time the X server gets involved, there should be no difference. If Emacs even looks at the fonts' width for tab, that seems to be a bug. So if you can find out where Emacs even pays attention to what the font says or does for a tab character, that should be a start at debugging this problem. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
