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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The argument for having tabs adjust depending on your ide sounds better than it is in practice. Someone formatting code to look nice with width 4 will look horrendous for someone who uses width 8.

Spaces makes it uniform and captures the exact style the original dev intended

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have your tab width set on 8, that is on you. You will also set your IDE to insert 8 spaces when you press TAB and I will cry when I have to give you a code review.

When I indent my code, I am indicating that I am in a nested block. I don't care if, on your screen, that indent is 2, 3, or 4 characters.

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

That's fine, when I view it I will get my preferred tab width. This situation is only anarchist with spaces, with tabs they are just a masochist.