Tab character handling/rendering

[jennydaman]

A popular use case of Wayland menu dialogs is for providing a GUI for cliphist. The command cliphist list produces \t characters, which are not rendered by yofi:

The documentation of cliphist shows examples of how programs similar to yofi, such as fzf, rofi, and wofi, all have some feature which support treating the input as tab-separated values and selecting a specific column.

• yofi should render \t characters
• feature request: yofi dialog should support the flag --with-nth

Workaround

yofi can still be used with cliphist like this:

cliphist list | sed 's/\t/    /' | yofi dialog | sed 's/    /\t/' | cliphist decode | wl-copy