What type of terminal does your remote environment think you are in?
Try echo $TERM 
                Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn



> On Jun 30, 2022, at 15:01, Steve Matzura <numb...@noisynotes.com> wrote:
> 
> Definitely do try this at home.
> 
> 
> 1. Create a new file by pasting the following two lines of text into a blank 
> TextEdit or Pico buffer:
> 
> 
> 1  2  3  4
> 
> 1        2        3        4
> 
> 
> The first line has the four digits separated by two spaces. The second line 
> has the four digits separated by two TAB's.
> 
> 
> If you move the cursor around in the TextEdit window, you should here:
> 
> 
> one space space two space space three space space four
> 
> 
> on the first line, and
> 
> 
> one tab tab two tab tab three tab tab four
> 
> 
> on the second line.
> 
> 
> In Pico, and also if you ssh into another system from the Terminal window and 
> edit the same contents with nano or pico on the remote system, the first line 
> will speak the same as it did in TextEdit, but on the second line you will 
> hear:
> 
> 
> one one one two two two three three three four
> 
> 
> If you replace figures with words on the second line, like this:
> 
> 
> one        two        three        four
> 
> 
> and move the cursor along in either direction on that line, you may hear 
> parts of words, or maybe just the first or last letter of the word as the 
> cursor passes over the TAB characters next to it. Why is this, what causes 
> it, and how can it be mitigated, eliminated or prevented? Is it a nano/pico 
> bug? A VoiceOver bug?
> 
> 
> You should also know that this does not occur when using nano or pico in 
> Windows, nor does it occur when using ssh to get into a Mac and edit the same 
> buffer using local pico.
> 
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