How to copy tab delimited text to clipboard from unix shell while saving tabs?

Question

I am trying to copy and paste several lines of a file from a UNIX environment into a web page. I want to keep the original tab-breaking formatting. However, when I select a block of text and copy and paste it into a web page, all the tabs have been converted to different runs of spaces.

Can someone please tell me what can I do to keep the original tabs? It should be as simple as possible so that novice users can do the same!

thanks

Answer 1

Based on your comment that there are no tabs in the text you are copying, I suspect that the ptty you used converted them for you. I suspect that if you run "stty tabs", you may get the behavior you are looking for (disabling the tab extension in ptty).