To be fair you can totally bind an arbitrary number of spaces to tab in vi. I’ll dig out the syntax highlighting file some time. Oh and I use vim really.
I mean I was 99% sure it convert to spaces, I cannot say I was certain. The default settings are fine for what I do, I only ever had to change the spacing from 4 to 2 spaces once when dealing with someone else’s files
Mixing spaces and tabs should be a warcrime.
And in Python, it’s merely a SyntaxCrime.
Find me anyone who claims they use tabs for indentation, and I bet I’ll find at least one case where they’re using both tabs and spaces.
The only safe way to avoid war crimes is to avoid tabs.
Why would I use spaces if I use tabs? Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times…
To comply with Python’s best practices:
https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/
Also, if you work on the Linux Kernel, you’ll see a mix of tabs and spaces:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/bfq-iosched.c#L390
You use an editor that doesn’t auto-indent?
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I use vi without syntax highlighting.
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To be fair you can totally bind an arbitrary number of spaces to tab in vi. I’ll dig out the syntax highlighting file some time. Oh and I use vim really.
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I use the tab key but I’m pretty sure vs code converts that to spaces
Depends on your settings, but yeah typically it does
It worries me that a programmer wouldn’t know for sure what’s happening when they hit tab, and that it’s a setting that can be changed.
I mean I was 99% sure it convert to spaces, I cannot say I was certain. The default settings are fine for what I do, I only ever had to change the spacing from 4 to 2 spaces once when dealing with someone else’s files
Don’t IDEs just replace any tab with 4 spaces anyways? Pretty sure VSCode does
I don’t use an ide, but I wrote a script that replaces any space I type with four.
I haven’t worked out all the use cases yet, though.
That’s a setting in the editor.
Linux kernel?
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#indentation
edit: oh python, nevermind
The kernel definitely mixes tabs and spaces:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/bfq-iosched.c#L390