fix replace commands from visual and visual block mode not inserting tab #4195
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What this PR does / why we need it:
Currently, when replacing characters using replace command from Visual and Visual block mode. Pressing tab replaces characters with
<tab>
instead of the tab character. This PR fixes the issue so that every character in the selection is replaced by the tab character (affected bytabstop
andexpandtab
configuration).Which issue(s) this PR fixes
#2499
Special notes for your reviewer:
This is my first time contributing to an open source project. Please be kind 😄 .