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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tab gang

   Rise
     Up

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

-1 ∵ Those were spaces you put there.

You thought you could fool me?

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You expect full tabs in this economy?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 15 hours ago

Tabs are the cheaper alternative.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Vim: set shiftwidth=4 smarttab

We can afford to just use spaces now

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago

I guess some people would be happy to show how their space-ful codebases have higher gzip compression ratio than tabbed ones.