From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:52:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty-print: de-tabify indented logs to make things line up properly
Message-ID: <CA+55aFx2Yv6=zu_5cXOjeMEKTq1yeqDidRr820HzOSAj3xFb-g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1603160926060.13030@i7>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> This should all line up:
>
>   Column 1      Column 2
>   --------      --------
>   A             B
>   ABCD          EFGH
>   SPACES        Instead of Tabs
>
> Even with multi-byte UTF8 characters:
>
>   Column 1      Column 2
>   --------      --------
>   Ä             B
>   åäö           100
>   A Møøse       once bit my sister..

So with current git, it looks like this for me:

      Column 1  Column 2
      --------  --------
      A         B
      ABCD              EFGH
      SPACES        Instead of Tabs

    Even with multi-byte UTF8 characters:

      Column 1  Column 2
      --------  --------
      Ä         B
      åäö               100
      A Møøse   once bit my sister..

and with that patch it looks much better:

      Column 1      Column 2
      --------      --------
      A             B
      ABCD          EFGH
      SPACES        Instead of Tabs

    Even with multi-byte UTF8 characters:

      Column 1      Column 2
      --------      --------
      Ä             B
      åäö           100
      A Møøse       once bit my sister..

(of course, to see that assumes that you have a fixed-sized font in
your mail viewer, and that the spacing didn't get screwed up by my
cut-and-paste).

             Linus