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Joke: Devs are paid by how many buttons they press, devs who use spaces press the spacebar a lot!

• thejosh 5y ago
  do you know any devs who use spaces who press space 2-4 times instead of their tab key that indents it 2-4 spaces?
  • globular-toast 5y ago
    People use the tab key? Emacs automatically indents to the correct level and has done for decades I assume.
    • gpderetta 5y ago
      right, and I would expect most editors to indent automatically these days. Do people really routinely indent code by hand?
  • withinboredom 5y ago
    ME. My editor is set for "tab chars" because that's what I work with (I did not choose this). When I use that editor to make a quick PR to a project using spaces, I have to press space a couple of times to indent. I'm not going to change my settings just to make a couple of line in a PR.
    • fps_doug 5y ago
      I'm using vim with the detectindent script (with ugly hacks and enhancements)[1] for that, it gets this right most of the time if the source file isn't too short, including the number of spaces in case it's space-indented. [1] https://termbin.com/qzwzy https://termbin.com/qzwzy
    • est31 5y ago
      Personally, I'm a tab user in a language that does mostly spaces (Rust). My own projects use tabs but most projects I interact with use spaces. I had tabs in my editor for a long time and I would always either press the space button or change the editor's setting. Then I got sick of it and changed the editor's default. My own projects have an editorconfig file that my editor can read, setting it to tabs in the project's scope. The projects I contribute to usually don't have such a file, that's where the spaces-per-default setting comes in.
    • tasuki 5y ago
      Why not use editorconfig? https://editorconfig.org/ https://editorconfig.org/
  • maury91 5y ago
    Honestly no, but it's a joke, doesn't need to be 100% true