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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works -5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] dotMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use the tab key but I'm pretty sure vs code converts that to spaces

[–] gears@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Depends on your settings, but yeah typically it does

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dotMonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Don't IDEs just replace any tab with 4 spaces anyways? Pretty sure VSCode does

[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

That's a setting in the editor.

[–] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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...

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Why would I use spaces if I use tabs?

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

Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times…

You use an editor that doesn't auto-indent?

[–] ramsay@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)