[Bug: 21.4.15] replace string tab

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an tríú lá is fiche de mí Feabhra, scríobh Tim Jordan: 

 > I had a makefile open then:
 > split the window horizontally
 > opened a new file
 > selected and copied an area from the makefile
 > pasted into the new file
 > replace-string <tab>
 > 
 > At this point xemacs and my Xserver left me.

You need an X server with this patch applied: 

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=2016

Versions of XFree86 previous to that crashed when an app tried to draw a
literal tab character using many fonts. 

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