Bug 576878

Summary:	Copy tab paste spaces
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Udo Walker <udo.walker>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.22
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 10
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Description Udo Walker

2021-10-25 11:04:48 EDT

I copy in an text editor a "tab" character and insert it in the same editor but I got 4 space characters. 

How could this happen?

When I set the formatter to "spaces instead of tabs" then this is a formatter functionality.

But why is my copied "tab" not pasted as "tab"?