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Nearly every editor has a "show whitespace" option.[0] I still don't understand why some people don't use it. Even in non-whitespace sensitive languages, I nee
by cardanome 2y ago
Nearly every editor has a "show whitespace" option.[0]
I still don't understand why some people don't use it. Even in non-whitespace sensitive languages, I need to see the whitespace so that I can tell if the formatting is off or not. Also make the code easier to read as I can literally see how far the code is intended instead of having to guess by amount of space.
Sure, automatic code formatting solves most of the issues but it is still good to have actual control over your whitespace.
[0] Except VIM which vexes me greatly. Might be one of the reasons whitespace sensitive languages are disliked by certain programmers?
- chrismorgan 2y ago> Nearly every editor has a "show whitespace" option. Except VIM Sure it does. See 'list' and 'listchars'.
- cardanome 2y agoWhich looks ugly as hell per default and I have never gotten to work quite right for me
- PhilipRoman 2y agoI use something like this for my daily work vimrc: set list listchars=tab:›\ ,multispace:· The only thing I hate about vim's treatment of indents is having separate settings for shiftwidth and tabsize.