Le 27-sept.-2013 à 2:54, Roopesh Chander <[email protected]> a écrit :

>>> A U+0009 (TAB) character in the input shall be treated as four
>>> consecutive U+0020 (SPACE) characters.
>> 
>> No. That's often not the case. If I write "*" followed by tab to begin a 
>> line,
>> that tab represents three spaces, not four. The number of spaces represented
>> by a tab is 4-(column_number modulo 4). But you probably knew that. ;-)
> 
> In vfmd, a TAB character is always 4 spaces. It's not like pressing TAB in
> MS Word. For the same reason, from a user perspective, it's better to use
> spaces instead of TABs to separate the list bullet char (`*`) from the list
> item.

Ok, so that's deliberate. I don't understand the motivation though. From the 
user perspective, that's not how tab works, nor how Markdown has done things 
for the last decade.


-- 
Michel Fortin
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http://michelf.ca

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