Drolpiraat wrote:Fifo wrote:< disagrees. < wonders why.
< prefers tabs because 1 tab is 1 indentation unit as opposed to 1 space being either half or 1/4 of that.
< prefers spaces because who would want to install Notepad++ just to use it once?
Drolpiraat wrote:Using tabs also makes it very easy for everyone to adjust the indentation width to their liking (just adjust how tabs are displayed) while that's not possible at all with spaces.
Yeah, but the built-in Windows Notepad sets the tab width to 8 spaces and that’s too wide, and you can’t change it.
Drolpiraat wrote:< hates it when < copy pastes code from the internet and it's indented with spaces. Some programming languages won't even work with files indented with both spaces and tabs

< knows some editors can convert between spaces and tabs. < remembers Notepad++ can do that, but <’s not sure.
Drolpiraat wrote:< also uses Notepad++, by the way. With a customized dark theme. Much easier on <'s eyes.
Mind sharing the theme?
Hunchman801 wrote:Fifo wrote:< disagrees. < wonders why.
<'s answer is that the very purpose of tabs is to indent things, which makes it rather senseless not to use them. Especially that the reasons not to (e.g. different people use different tab widths which can result in misaligned stuff) are based on bad habits which we should fight rather than accomodate. And anyway, the least would be not to force those habits on other developers, which happens with spaces since the width is therefore hardcoded.
< understands.