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Huh? You say "[I wouldn't] force my editing preferences on others", yet you want to insist on inserting invisible whitespace characters into shared source code.

• saagarjha 8y ago
  That's a disingenuous misinterpretation of the comment. There's a clear difference between "I'd like code to be indented", which is widely agreed upon to be a good idea, and "you need to see my code indented with four characters because I hardcoded this into my source code", which is personal preference.
• seabird 8y ago
  They are invisible whitespace characters that are handled reliably and flexibly in every editor that I've ever used them in. The same cannot be said for spaces. If a codebase is using two space indenting, I get to look at the resulting puke (this is subjective, of course) on my screen. I might be able to do some hackjob fix to change how they're displayed, but why should I have to? There's a character that satisfies both me and the animal that wanted to indent their code with 2 spaces.