show 4 spaces in place of tab in Terminal #10324
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Resolves: #10319
We could maybe use
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if we wanted to try to mimic the little arrows that some IDEs use to show tabs.I have only done very basic testing with the REPL reproducer from the issue so far.
With this change:

without this change:

It still differs visually from my tio showing the serial console, in my local terminal at least. It seems mine is replacing tabs with 8 spaces perhaps. I don't necessarily think that difference is meaningful though.