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I use tab at three. And will do to the day I die.
by frizlab 1y ago
I use tab at three. And will do to the day I die.
- ben_w 1y agoSometimes I remember a workplace system I used, where someone had set tabs to 8 space. I don't know why it was 8, but it was.
- PlunderBunny 1y agoThe VAX/VMS terminals we used at university to learn Pascal defaulted to 8 space tabs, on a 80 column screen. That certainly pushed some people towards using spaces.
- 1718627440 1y agoI use 8-sized tabs with 72 columns in C. The human eye doesn't like moving all that much while reading and more windows fit one the screen even if it is annotated with git blame. In addition there is this argument from Torvalds, that you should mind your maximum nesting in a single function, which I also find useful.
- Jensson 1y ago> In addition there is this argument from Torvalds, that you should mind your maximum nesting in a single function, which I also find useful. Note that nesting is a much bigger issue in a language like C where you have to clean up after yourself, in most languages having a lot of nesting in a function isn't an issue.
- g-b-r 1y agoIt's how they've been interpreted forever on Unix and other old systems It's probably the main reason why they're so controversial.
- kbelder 1y agoWhich was influenced by tab stops on typewriters... which were adjustable, but were generally set at 1/2", 3/4", or 1"... which was the equivalent to 5-12 characters, depending on your font (monospaced, but sometimes 10 cpi, sometimes 12 cpi).
- rimunroe 1y agoA friend of mine worked at a place which used three column indents and now I’m fully converted