Fix the size of the tab not being fixed after being justified on "fully"

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Progress track thread is now a daemon thread https://github.com/Textualize/rich/pull/3402
 - Fixed cached hash preservation upon clearing meta and links https://github.com/Textualize/rich/issues/2942
 - Fixed overriding the `background_color` of `Syntax` not including padding https://github.com/Textualize/rich/issues/3295
+- The size of the tab (\t) was not fixed when justifying text "fully" https://github.com/Textualize/rich/issues/3424
 
 ### Changed
 

CONTRIBUTORS.md

@@ -85,3 +85,4 @@ The following people have contributed to the development of Rich:
 - [Pierro](https://github.com/xpierroz)
 - [Bernhard Wagner](https://github.com/bwagner)
 - [Aaron Beaudoin](https://github.com/AaronBeaudoin)
+- [oppZ](https://github.com/oppZ)

rich/containers.py

@@ -151,9 +151,15 @@ def justify(
                 index = 0
                 if spaces:
                     while words_size + num_spaces < width:
-                        spaces[len(spaces) - index - 1] += 1
+                        word_index = len(spaces) - index - 1
+                        while cell_len(words[word_index].plain) == 0 and not words_size == 0:
+                            index = (index + 1) % len(spaces)
+                            word_index = len(spaces) - index - 1
+
+                        spaces[word_index] += 1
                         num_spaces += 1
                         index = (index + 1) % len(spaces)
+
                 tokens: List[Text] = []
                 for index, (word, next_word) in enumerate(
                     zip_longest(words, words[1:])

rich/text.py

@@ -1226,7 +1226,8 @@ def wrap(
         lines = Lines()
         for line in self.split(allow_blank=True):
             if "\t" in line:
-                line.expand_tabs(tab_size)
+                line.plain = line.plain.replace("\t", " " * tab_size)
+                line._length = len(line.plain)
             if no_wrap:
                 new_lines = Lines([line])
             else: