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You use tabs to delimitate tabular data. Unless you're trying to argue that your code is a tsv file then tabs is the wrong thing to use.

• rafram 1y ago
  You use line feeds (\n) to instruct your teletype machine to feed in one more line of paper. Unless you're trying to argue that your text editor is a teletype machine, then line feeds are the wrong thing to use.
  • lesuorac 1y ago
    I think most people are pretty amenable to the argument that text editors are teletype machines. Nobody cares that phone calls happen over fiber now instead of telephone lines. So, same should apply to teletype. Nobody is going to care you're reading this over fiber instead of a telephone line. Now, people do care if they're trying to read a csv document and somebody didn't quote their commas within strings and now the values are in the wrong columns which could've been avoided by using tabs to store tabular data.
    • g-b-r 1y ago
      > I think most people are pretty amenable to the argument that text editors are teletype machines. So you're ok if your text editor interprets the LFs of a Unix text file as mere line feeds, without ever going back to the beginning of the lines?