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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What environment are you using that has a hardcoded tab size? I haven't seen this since typewriters.

Some projects just use tabs as a compressed form of 8 spaces. But that is a sin. Use tab to mean "one indent level" and align with spaces if you need to. (the occasional ASCII art diagram)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What environment are you using that has a hardcoded tab size?

  • Termux
  • SourceHut
  • “View page source” in the browser
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Termux

I think running tabs -N (where N is you preferred tab size) in the terminal should work. This is what I use in my zshrc on desktop.

SourceHut

Yup, they seem to be pretty opinionated here. If you look at the source there is just an inlined style with a single rule pre { tab-size: 8 }. I guess that is what you get when you use opinionated tools. The user's browser isn't right, my preference is right!

“View page source” in the browser

On Firefox this uses my default tab size of 4. But I guess changing this default isn't user-friendly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't count it as good when it is unconfigurable when it happens to use your preference when the whole selling point of tabs is that they're configurable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't understand what you are trying to say. I agree that SourceHut forcing their preference isn't good. The other two are configurable and I have configured them to my preference on my machines.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You made it sound like Firefox wasn't configurable, my bad. I thought you were saying you didn't care that it wasn't configurable because you liked the width they chose.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh no. It is configurable, although it requires editing userContent.css. So barely configurable. I think it defaults to 8 but I reduce it to 4.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Github uses 8 as a default. It's configurable though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What environment are you using that has a hardcoded tab size?

Microsoft Windows' Notepad. I have sometimes used that when on a public computer.