sharkdp
preserve hard tabs
Hi,
Every pager I've tried corrupts hard tabs to spaces.
This happens with more, less, ov, and bat.
It ends up breaking common copy & paste workflows for indentation sensitive languages, including Go and make.
I tried --tabs 0 -p. At first glance, the rendering looks okay. However, when I select the bat paginated source code snippsets in my Terminal.app console, then the output characters turn out to be corrupted into individual spaces.
Update:
When I apply the flags --tabs 0 -p --pager=builtin, then the behavior is even worse. Now, I get no feedback at all about which text characters are selected for copying to the clipboard.
These problems happen with the latest stable bat release from Homebrew, on macOS Sequoia.