That's what tab-loving developers are saying the whole time: tab character is that special tooling that can be set by every developer for their own environment.

That's what tab-loving developers are saying the whole time: tab character is that special tooling that can be set by every developer for their own environment. :) Even though I fully buy that argument, I still prefer spaces, perhaps for the same reasons I like to format my code myself (vs. auto-formatters). Even software engineers can't be all reasonable all the time :)