• rekabis@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 months ago

        Insisting that all tabs should be the same length as eight spaces.

        Open up notepad, and compare. Eight spaces = 1 tab.

          • rekabis@lemmy.ca
            11·
            2 months ago

            And yet, that is its default definition regardless of operating system.

            That’s also why almost every IDE out there has tabs auto-set to 4 spaces, and/or gives the user to change it away from 8 spaces.

            • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              And yet, that is its default definition regardless of operating system.

              Defined by what? When does the os, rather than a program, determine how many spaces a tab is?

        • frazorth@feddit.uk
          4·
          2 months ago

          Its funny that the argument against tabs is purely because someone once opened a file in a shitty editor.

          • rekabis@lemmy.ca
            11·
            2 months ago

            I am not arguing against tabs. I actually find them a lot cleaner than spaces. But the default definition of a tab has it being eight spaces long, regardless of operating system.

            It’s just that “tab = 4 spaces” is either the default in a number of IDEs, and in those which it isn’t, almost everyone changes it to that anyhow.

            • frazorth@feddit.uk
              2·
              2 months ago

              I didn’t think that you were. I was criticising Notepad as a really shitty “editor”.

              I personally set tabs to 2 spaces, but then thats the beauty of tabs over spaces. You can have two or four, or even eight if you hate yourself without impacting anyone else.

              People who demand spaces are Republicans, they want to force their 2/4/8 space rule on you even if it is inconsequential.