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Vim very easily allows me to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment... "Using tabs simply does not work in practice." Outside of the python communi

Vim very easily allows me to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment... "Using tabs simply does not work in practice." Outside of the python community, "tabs for indentation, space for alignment" is quite common. Many people use it in practice, to say that it simply doesn't work is ignoring reality.

Peaker 15y ago
Vim does not do this by default, you have to enable it explicitly. And then, when others edit the code -- the use some wrong mixture of tabs and spaces. What I said is that it won't work in practice in a multi-editor environment. If everyone has a uniformly configured vim, it may work -- but no work environment I've seen ever had that. EDIT: Can you name a single example project source I can look at that correctly uses tabs for indentation only? I've never seen it work, it always deteriorates into a mess in my experience. Also, do you ever work with people who use Eclipse, Visual Studio, Notepad++, and various non-vim editors?