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I hate meaningfull identation because the tools I end up using suck at maintaining it. I end up bugfixing on customer systems, sometimes on systems used by cowo

by josefx 8y ago

I hate meaningfull identation because the tools I end up using suck at maintaining it. I end up bugfixing on customer systems, sometimes on systems used by coworkers. There is no editor with consitent tab vs. spaces or tab width settings. I had editors clear two indents at once, fail to correctly line up new indents more often than not. I will accept whitespace as sane block scoping method the moment every text editor follows the same settings out of the box with the ability to customize the settings removed.

jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
>There is no editor with consitent tab vs. spaces or tab width settings. This is just plain false. PyCharm does, and I am sure there are others.
- josefx 8y ago
  While I have PyCharm on my dev. system the chance that I can use it while I am debugging or extending a script on a customers system is zero, sometimes there is kwrite, sometimes it is gedit and if it is headless I may get vim. So consistency is guaranteed to be non existent.