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A number of space users simply never learned or cared to use the tab key to indent. Their choice doesn't really come from a value proposition This won't do muc
by sebstefan 3y ago
A number of space users simply never learned or cared to use the tab key to indent. Their choice doesn't really come from a value proposition
This won't do much to sway these programmers
- rerdavies 3y agoHuh? We space users all use the tab key. We just make sure our editor replaces them with spaces as we type because of decades of bitter experience with how mixed tabs and spaces behave over time. The more interesting question is why tab users haven't noticed that we use mandatory auto-code-formatting these days, to make sure all your tabs are belong to us. ;-P
- sebstefan 3y agoWe live in a diverse world!
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> The more interesting question is why tab users haven't noticed that we use mandatory auto-code-formatting these days, to make sure all your tabs are belong to us. I'm guessing they're using an equivalent of `M-x tabify` running automatically after opening a file. Excerpt from documentation on `tabify` in Emacs: Convert multiple spaces in region to tabs when possible. A group of spaces is partially replaced by tabs when this can be done without changing the column they end at. If called interactively with prefix ARG, convert for the entire buffer. Personally, I'm a "space user", and I only have `delete-trailing-whitespace` run on save (`before-save-hook`); at work, we have a pre-commit hook that untabifies committed changes (and then another to run language-specific autoformatter).
- Etherlord87 3y ago> We space users all use the tab key. Not all. I've seen people hit spaces repeatedly…