On 21 March 2017 at 14:42, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Wildman <best_...@yahoo.com>: > >> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:01:26 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> Can you ask your workmates to elaborate? I'd love to hear. >> >> I would love to hear also. I've been using Linux for about 10 years >> and I have never had anything "break" because of a tab. Sounds like a >> case of Chicken Little to me. > > Example: > > - Start emacs with the default settings. > > - Edit buffer "abc": C-x C-b abc > > - Start drawing: M-x picture-mode > > - Draw this box starting from the top left corner and circling > clockwise: > > +------------------+ > | | > | | > +------------------+ >
Didn't want to say this, but you know it was quite predictable from the beginning that the arguments will end up somewhere in "linux console is the center of the universe, e-macs is mother of all apps and monospaced text is peak of human evolution". I don't know how to help, probably if there is an important document which you want different people to read, just make plain txt, or HTML table, Office document, PNG image, etc. Or just use spaces if it is for ASCII-art purposes. And on linux console, by default one does not even have good possibilities for text-mode pseudographics, it was more relevant in DOS where one had rich possibilities and programmable binary fonts. Mikhail -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
