From 080118876a68b40d638f780720fb93f84f7c3d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien Elmes <gpg@ankiweb.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:59:55 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] preserve whitespace when pasting text

---
 aqt/editor.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/aqt/editor.py b/aqt/editor.py
index 251322847..e284e4a2c 100644
--- a/aqt/editor.py
+++ b/aqt/editor.py
@@ -938,7 +938,10 @@ class EditorWebView(AnkiWebView):
 
         # normal text; convert it to HTML
         txt = html.escape(txt)
-        txt = txt.replace("\n", "<br>")
+        txt = txt.replace("\n", "<br>")\
+            .replace("\t", " "*4)\
+            .replace(" ", "&nbsp;")
+
         return txt
 
     def _processHtml(self, mime):