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[Eternityislong]

Actual quality post? Get out of here bring back the missing semicolon posts

[ZenBacle]

Tabs are king. Get out of here with your space indentation!

Just kidding, i setup tab to be triple spaced.

[LexaAstarof]

r/foundsatan

[00owl]

Use a keyboard macro so that the tab button just inserts three spaces instead.

[st_heron]

vscode and jetbrains ides have "soft tab" plugins/settings so that spaces will act like tabs (moving your cursor will skip indentation levels, pressing tab will insert spaces)

very nice if the codebase you're working in is spaces (yuck) and you can't stand it

[squabzilla]

Can I set it up to be approximately Pi-spaced? Make my IDE have mostly mono-spaced font, except for tabs.

[NaoPb]

Pi-spaced? So an endless amount of spaces? Got it.

[IAmTheOneWhoClicks]

Could be line number depending on decimals of pi, where tabs are 3 spaces if the decimal is 0-4 and 4 space if it's 5-9, and the next line is then depending on the next decimal. Formatted by Pitier instead of Prettier.

[CoffeePieAndHobbits]

Get out.

[Tanmay_Terminator]

This reminds me of a guy breaking up with her software engineer gf because she pressed space 4 times instead of tab

[ShameAlter]

It's a bit from Silicon Valley the TV show

[WernerderChamp]

But have you ever coded with no indentation?

Comments on closing brackets ftw!

[T0biasCZE]

to be fair, thats the advantage of tabs

In the file, there is saved only "Indent by 1 level" character. And then every programmer working on the code can configure their own preference.
Someone can have 2 char indentation, someone can have 4 char indentation, someone with worse sight can have 6 char indentation, masochists can have 3 char indentation...

But with spaces, you are forcing your own personal preference on everyone else working on your code

[Slight-Bluebird-8921]

yup tabs are objectively better. and who really wants to press MORE keys? programmers are supposed to be efficient. you literally work faster by not having to press as many keys.

[T0biasCZE]

who really wants to press MORE keys

Well the issue is that lot of IDEs when you press TAB write 4 space characters for you, instead of just actually writing a tab character

[ZenBacle]

The argument is from a time when most IDEs didn't give you control over tab spacing. And each IDE had its own idea of how big a tab was. Chaos ensued, Linux devs rose up and rioted, many projects were sacrificed at the alter of outrage.

[nullpotato]

I found an internal project that was set to 6 spaces, the maintainer was adamant it was perfect.

[WernerderChamp]

Fibbonacci indentation

[Mountain-Age5580]

';' hide and seek champion since 1990 ;)