Azuredatastudio: Messages collapses whitespace

[stevenreddie]

Issue Type: Bug

Output rendered into the Messages pane has each span of space characters collapsed to a single space. For something that I'm working on at the moment the whitespace is significant. ADS's current behavior makes it extremely difficult to debug. SSMS works the way that I expect.

STEPS:

1. Execute the following line:

        PRINT '1   2                           3      4               5'

1. Observe that the output in the Messages pane is rendered with a single space between each number rather than a variable number of spaces.
2. Repeat in SSMS and observe that the output does have the variable number of spaces as contained in the string passed to PRINT.

Azure Data Studio version: Azure Data Studio 1.2.2-insider (98d06b28923ad778491dd47dfa337939b4ee4efd, 2018-10-27T00:43:14.137Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 18.0.0

System Info

|Item|Value|
|---|---|
|CPUs|Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6920HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz (8 x 2900)|
|GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
checker_imaging: disabled_off
flash_3d: enabled
flash_stage3d: enabled
flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
native_gpu_memory_buffers: enabled
rasterization: enabled
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled|
|Load (avg)|2, 2, 2|
|Memory (System)|16.00GB (0.05GB free)|
|Process Argv|/Applications/Azure Data Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron -psn_0_12577790|
|Screen Reader|no|
|VM|0%|

Extensions: none

[stevenreddie]

3011 may be related

[stevenreddie]

Additionally, it would be great to be able to view the output text in Messages in a fixed-width font. An option to "View as raw text" could address both of these issues.

[BrianStork]

Please let us configure the font family for the MESSAGES pane. A proportional font in an IDE seems like an odd choice, and the ability to configure the font would be greatly appreciated.