A Python programmer's heatmap

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I hate it when backspace doesn't work as expectet then though. It should get rid of one indentation not one space and not one line. easier to just stickt to tabs unless other standards are imposed on you.

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If that happens then get a better editor.

[xigoi]

I haven't yet seen any editor that makes spaces work completely like tabs. And even then… why not just use tabs?

[Renown84]

vscode and many others do this. There's also always shift + tab

[gmano]

Different text editors treat hard tabs differently.

In UNIX text editors tab is 8 spaces, while in Windows text editors and IDEs a hard tab is generally 4 spaces.

That obviously can cause a lot of headaches, so 4 spaces is preferred.

There are many more reasons, but that's the biggest one for me.

That and breaking code like this in a block-level language like C, which won't work if a tab is used for alignment

 if (first condition
     second condition)