preserve hard tabs

[mcandre]

Hi,

Every pager I've tried corrupts hard tabs to spaces.

This happens with more, less, ov, and bat.

It ends up breaking common copy & paste workflows for indentation sensitive languages, including Go and make.

I tried --tabs 0 -p. At first glance, the rendering looks okay. However, when I select the bat paginated source code snippsets in my Terminal.app console, then the output characters turn out to be corrupted into individual spaces.

[mcandre]

Update:

When I apply the flags --tabs 0 -p --pager=builtin, then the behavior is even worse. Now, I get no feedback at all about which text characters are selected for copying to the clipboard.

These problems happen with the latest stable bat release from Homebrew, on macOS Sequoia.