From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 31 2002 - 07:51:51 EST
--- Martin Sevior
<msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > Hi
Folks!
> AbiWord has acquired a very serious bug. Tabs are
> not being
> exported to *.abw files. Try typing a line with
> serveral tabs in it and
> save the file as a *.abw. Then read file back. The
> tabs are gone.
>
> I suspect this is a result of the ^G bogus document
> fix.
>
> plam can you check please? Perhaps a better solution
> would be to map the
> ^G keystroke to insert a TAB in the document. See
> ap_LB_Default.cpp for
> how to define key bindings.
It sounds related. They're probably filtering out all
characters below 32 (space) except for carriage return
and linefeed but forgot about 9 (tab). Since tab is
^I and not ^G it's probably even easier to fix than
you think (:
Andrew Dunbar.
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