cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42598837
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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Are you arguing that it's good design to have invisible characters behave differently or am I missing your point?
It doesn't have to be invisible.
https://jonathanmh.com/p/showing-indentation-spaces-tabs-invisibles-in-various-editors/
A workaround doesn't excuse terrible design!
Yes!
Yes!
There's a reason that stuff exists.
So that when someone used to tabs, does something in a spacebar-project, they can see that they will need a
clang-format.Oh you use an indentation sensitive language? Err... my condolences.