Paste with tabs renders ^I #144

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1. favorini commented on Sep 6, 2014

   

   favorini

   on Sep 6, 2014

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   I wonder if leading whitespace should be thrown away. For example, if you paste some lines of code from a file, I don't see much benefit in having them indented on the console. Or possibly, strip the shortest substring of whitespace common to the beginning of all lines (ignoring blank lines and lines that are all whitespace). That way relative indent is preserved.
2. rkeithhill commented on Sep 7, 2014

   

   Keith Hill (rkeithhill)

   on Sep 7, 2014

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   I don't think the module should get too cute with how it modifies the text to be pasted. I can "column select" text from most sources I paste from. Replacing tabs that don't render anyway with spaces seems reasonable. Anything more, doesn't.
3. Jason Shirk (lzybkr)

   closed this as completedin 447fc56on Nov 12, 2017
4. beedell-roke commented on Jul 12, 2024

   

   Mr Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (beedell-roke)

   on Jul 12, 2024

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   #144 (comment)

   Per PowerShell/PowerShell#24037 (comment), this doesn't work consistently - I've still had ^I appear in a few (albeit not most) scenarios, when pasting text.
5. xylographe

   added a commit that references this issue on Mar 17, 2026

   Replace TAB with 4 spaces when pasting

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   This issue will close once commit 447fc56 is merged into the 'master' branch.

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