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

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

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8 space tabs is incredibly stupid

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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.

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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?

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

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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.

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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.

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