Last modified: 2013-12-04 05:20:10 UTC
Now that bug 39616 is fixed, the SyntaxHighlight extension is converting every tab to a series of eight spaces. This transformation prevents the fix for bug 57824 from having any effect on <source> tags. It's also inconsistent with the CodeEditor extension, which displays tabs as four spaces and binds the Tab key to the tab character (bug 39616). While an eight-character wide tab may make sense in some contexts, replacing a tab with eight spaces would seem contrary to user intent in the vast majority of cases. Possibly a regression of bug 30930?
Naturally, this bug breaks GeSHi's support for the Whitespace language, as seen in the URL above.
(In reply to comment #0) > Possibly a regression of bug 30930? No, it's not. Bug 30930 was that Tidy's tabs-to-spaces change was making code be unaligned, and that was fixed by converting tabs-to-spaces before highlighting the code.
Change 98540 had a related patch set uploaded by Anomie: Protect tabs from HTML Tidy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/98540
Change 98540 merged by jenkins-bot: Protect tabs from HTML Tidy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/98540
Patch is merged, and should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.23wmf6. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap for the schedule.
