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That is a pretty good point. As a rubyist, I always use and advocate two spaces - but if I ever find myself on a team with visual impairments, I'll be sure to a
by undecisive 7y ago
That is a pretty good point. As a rubyist, I always use and advocate two spaces - but if I ever find myself on a team with visual impairments, I'll be sure to ask whether tabs would be useful to the team. I'm a big believer that Team-level consistency is far more important than Universe-level consistency, and silver bullets kill.
That said, I'm intrigued - surely this must be a solved problem at this point? Anybody aware of any good text editors / editor plugins that allow you to modify the visual spacing of start-of-line spaces?
- dTal 7y agoIt is a solved problem! Just use tabs. Almost every editor supports adjustable-width tabs. Why go out of your way to avoid tabs, and then make spaces behave like tabs?
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- themarkn 7y agoIt’s safer to assume that any code you write will at one point be maintained by somebody with a visual impairment even if there’s not currently a team member with an impairment.