This gets to a dimension of the problem that is often overlooked: Git web viewers, like every other code viewer we use carries its own notion of the position of

This gets to a dimension of the problem that is often overlooked: Git web viewers, like every other code viewer we use carries its own notion of the position of the tab stops. Notably, this includes CLI shells, connected to a "terminal emulator", where what is being emulated is an ancient piece of hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 Semantics of the ASCII tab byte code: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap05.html#tagtcjh_2 https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1... A far-downstream consequence of this is that source code formatted to an assumption of tab stops at other than 8-column intervals, as is not uncommon in Javascript, produces unreadable CLI output from diff, git-diff, ...