• jadero@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    The way you explain it sounds like how tabs works in MS Word ( or other word processors ).

    That is exactly how they work, and after 40 years, I still struggle with the whole “tab as a shortcut for spaces” thing. It’s not that I started with word processors, either, just that as soon I started working with them, everything got so much easier for me.

    There are some code-specific things that keep me from just going back to a word processor, but I think our code editors are missing some useful features that are found in word processors.

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      8 months ago

      Generally I’m not very preoccupied with it as the IDE just formats it the way I like it on save :D.