Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Ah, yeah, I forgot we had that. I _thought_ we had a variable ($HT or > something) for this, but it looks like we only define and use it in a > few scripts. I do not mind seeing a patch that consolidates them to test-lib.sh and make HT sit next to SQ and LF. > Yeah, that'd probably be OK. I usually shy away from embedded tabs > because they can cause confusion in editors. But we have them already, > and this kind of expected output is not touched all that often. Hmph, I do shy away from trailing whitespaces and we cannot do leading tabs when doing <<-EOF, but I haven't seen much problem with them in the middle of a line. It does become annoying when they happen to be at the 7th column because it is hard to tell (even with one-letter-at-a-time move command in your editor) if it is a SP or HT, but q-to-tab in the middle of lines would make the result much harder to read and the cure is worse than the disease.
