After Reline implements bracketed paste, text containing "\t" can be inserted to IRB.
Reline can't render "\t" because the rendered width of "\t" is unknown and flexible, (and I think Reline only supports width within 0..2 now).
There are two options.
"\t" can be inserted into IRB, and colorized as two spaces. irb> p ' '.bytes will print [9]
"\t" will be converted to two spaces when pasted. irb> p ' '.bytes will print [32, 32]
Need for https://github.com/ruby/reline/pull/655
After Reline implements bracketed paste, text containing
"\t"can be inserted to IRB. Reline can't render"\t"because the rendered width of"\t"is unknown and flexible, (and I think Reline only supports width within 0..2 now). There are two options."\t"can be inserted into IRB, and colorized as two spaces.irb> p ' '.byteswill print[9]"\t"will be converted to two spaces when pasted.irb> p ' '.byteswill print[32, 32]https://github.com/ruby/reline/pull/655 is doing the former one, need to fix IRB's tab colorizing test.