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> forbidding it makes a one-keystroke action a two or four one. Not if your editor can be configured to interpret a Tab keypress as the appropriate number of s
by pdonis 3y ago
> forbidding it makes a one-keystroke action a two or four one.
Not if your editor can be configured to interpret a Tab keypress as the appropriate number of spaces. AFAIK all common text editors, at least in the Unix world, do this.
- wkat4242 3y agoI don't want that though, because then I still have to mess around with spaces when editing. I actually like tabs for indenting levels especially because I can configure how far they indent on the fly.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoMy editor can also change the width of blocks of spaces on the fly, as well as navigating them in arbitray chunks.
- pdonis 3y ago*> I still have to mess around with spaces when editing. Not if your editor automatically indents and dedents with spaces. I find that to work just fine when editing Python code, for example. Tab is interpreted as "indent" and Backspace if you're at an indent stop is interpreted as "dedent".