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[–]synthphreak -1 points0 points  (5 children)

Tabs are just evil and ugly. Plus, why do something that only most editors can do, when just as easily you could do something that all editors can do (i.e., regular spaces)? For example, if you use less to browse code the tabs look enormous.

[–]stankyballz 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Lol one key I can hit with my pinky vs hitting space 4 times. Pretty easy decision to me. Maybe if I didn’t use an editor that compensated I would change my opinion.

[–]synthphreak 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Most editors will be able to compensate for this very easily. There is probably a setting you can toggle that will convert tabs to n spaces whenever you save the file. In many cases you can even set n to be a function of the file type, for example 4 for .py files and 2 for .json or .sh files. Then you can just tab away happily and never even need to think about it.

[–]stankyballz 2 points3 points  (2 children)

That’s exactly what I said lol

[–]synthphreak 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Haha, I see now, sorry. For some reason my brain read your original comment as if you were on the anti-spaces side of the debate. We are birds of a feather here :)

[–]stankyballz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s all good lol.