trouble with tabs [Re: Trouble with global-set-key to map meta-g with 'goto-line]

[Sven Urbanski]

Miles Bader wrote:

> Sven Urbanski <inf8237@fh-wedel.de> writes:
>> Well, the sender _and_ the reader have to use a fixed font, otherwise it
>> won't work as expected ( or they have to use the _same_ font ).
>> I get the arrow pointing to the 't' in meta, not pointing to the '-'.
>> I tried several fixed fonts. The problem is the 'tab' used by Stefan.
> 
> Actually Stefan didn't use a tab, the original poster did (Stefan just
> quoted his text verbatim) -- but still it should cause no problems

I agree.

> unless your mail reader uses a non-standard tab width.

No, it uses 8. The problem is the combination of a character (in this
example a space) and a tab. That combo produces a tab which is only 7 chars
long (because the space is also taken into account).
=>
I hate tabs.