Good IM/Chat solution for pasting code

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Published on 2009-10-01T19:06:08Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 5:13 UTC
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We've got several distributed developers working together on a couple of projects. We've been using Skype to host chats with all the developers, and it works okay except for one thing:

It REALLY mangles any code we copy and paste into the chats -- especially the whitespace in Python.

This question has tons of opinions about chat clients & servers, but no one has much to say about pasting in code. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36415/best-chat-im-tool-for-developers)

Is anybody out there using a chat or im client that handles source code really well?

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