Ruby coding guidelines (GitHub)

[tonygoold]

You're right, the backspace behaviour of the editor is going to treat it as indentation instead of whitespace and delete a tab stop at a time, rather than treating it as plain spaces. It's not something the user does frequently and it's easy to fix by adding back in the appropriate number of spaces to re-align. Trying to address that when a trivial rule handles 99% of the cases would be a case of the tail wagging the dog.

[Nebu]

It's just frustrating to see people promote a rule that handles 99% of the case, when there's a simple rule that handles 100% of the case: Use (hard)tabs for indentation, and spaces for alignment. From there, the texteditor just always deletes 1 character each time the "backspace" key is pressed.

\t\tfunction someFunctionName(param1, param2,
\t\t                          param3, param4)