Well, any PR to add this would have to make it very clear in the manual what it actually does.
What the manual is saying is that the default template contains a tab character at those positions (otherwise they don't show in the manual). It is not saying that \t is translated into a tab. You can just put an actual tab character in the template. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/869#issuecomment-175940596
