{"version":"2.1.282","anchor":"tabs-become-four-spaces-when-text-is-placed-into-the-prompt","canonical_anchor":"tabs-become-four-spaces-when-text-is-placed-into-the-prompt","heading":"Tabs in text placed back into the prompt are turned into four spaces","tier":"notice","area":"Prompt Input","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282\/e\/tabs-become-four-spaces-when-text-is-placed-into-the-prompt","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282","markdown":"### Tabs in text placed back into the prompt are turned into four spaces\n\nWhen text is put into the prompt box from your input history, each tab in it is now replaced with four spaces\n\n**Unclear.** It is not confirmed that this applies only to recalling earlier input rather than to other ways text is placed in the prompt.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude Code puts text into the prompt box from your input history, it now replaces every tab character with four spaces first. Before, the text went in unchanged, tabs included.\n\n**Why**\n\nTab characters can throw off the alignment of the input box or cause it to display wrongly. Spaces avoid that.\n\n- Area: Prompt Input\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}