From 042115270c0d038851a2a70e21072e10acf57680 2010-09-10 04:21:54
From: Evan Patterson <epatters@evan-laptop.localdomain>
Date: 2010-09-10 04:21:54
Subject: [PATCH] FrontendWidget now treats tab characters in the std* streams like most consoles.

Among other things, this fixes the alignment of the ls command's columns.

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diff --git a/IPython/frontend/qt/console/frontend_widget.py b/IPython/frontend/qt/console/frontend_widget.py
index 3f7b70a..873587c 100644
--- a/IPython/frontend/qt/console/frontend_widget.py
+++ b/IPython/frontend/qt/console/frontend_widget.py
@@ -324,7 +324,12 @@ class FrontendWidget(HistoryConsoleWidget, BaseFrontendMixin):
         """ Handle stdout, stderr, and stdin.
         """
         if not self._hidden and self._is_from_this_session(msg):
-            self._append_plain_text(msg['content']['data'])
+            # Most consoles treat tabs as being 8 space characters. Convert tabs
+            # to spaces so that output looks as expected regardless of this
+            # widget's tab width.
+            text = msg['content']['data'].expandtabs(8)
+            
+            self._append_plain_text(text)
             self._control.moveCursor(QtGui.QTextCursor.End)
     
     def _started_channels(self):