• frazorth@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    Its funny that the argument against tabs is purely because someone once opened a file in a shitty editor.

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      5 months ago

      I am not arguing against tabs. I actually find them a lot cleaner than spaces. But the default definition of a tab has it being eight spaces long, regardless of operating system.

      It’s just that “tab = 4 spaces” is either the default in a number of IDEs, and in those which it isn’t, almost everyone changes it to that anyhow.

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        5 months ago

        I didn’t think that you were. I was criticising Notepad as a really shitty “editor”.

        I personally set tabs to 2 spaces, but then thats the beauty of tabs over spaces. You can have two or four, or even eight if you hate yourself without impacting anyone else.