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<p dir="auto">On 1 May 2019, at 23:09, Randall Gellens wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">Is there an option to convert tabs into spaces when composing mail?</p>
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<p dir="auto">No, but maybe there should be. I haven't really given tabs in emails much thought.</p>
<p dir="auto">In general, I think the receiving email client should be in charge of how an email is displayed. In MailMate, I think I'm just using the macOS default which appears to be 4 when displaying HTML. The <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">tab-size</code> CSS value could probably be used to change that. (Observation: The current Markdown converter in MailMate seems to replace tabs with 4 spaces for <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7"><pre></code> segments, but this does not happen in a meaningful way.)</p>
<p dir="auto">The exception would be if the sender uses tabs in plain text to align something <em>not</em> at the beginning of a line. In this case, it would make sense to enforce a particular tab size by converting it into spaces. Then it might also make sense to generate HTML which enforces the use of a fixed-width font when the message is displayed.</p>
<p dir="auto">It's likely impossible to satisfy everyone (just try googling tabs-vs-spaces), but if I change the current default behavior then I'll also make sure to add options to control it.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny<br>
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