I don’t think you know what a tab means.
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mipadaitu@lemmy.world 5 months agoTabs suck, because you can’t rely on them for consistent spacing and formatting. Spaces always win out.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
frazorth@feddit.uk 5 months ago
How can you not rely on them for consistent spacing? It’s a tab.
Magnetar@feddit.de 5 months ago
But 2 or 4 spaces?
Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Maybe we can compromise with 3?
Magnetar@feddit.de 5 months ago
Heretic!
Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Well since we ditched the old 80 column terminals I’ve always thought a laid back 7 spacer tab would be sublime. Chilled indentation and a big prime number of spaces. Very profound, what’s not to like?
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 5 months ago
Classic “you’re using it wrong”.
The tab people still use spaces for formatting if they want to format something. Tabs are only used for indentation.
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Now I’m imagining how code where someone only uses tabs for everything would look.