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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 point 5 days ago (4 children)

-1 ∵ Those were spaces you put there.

You thought you could fool me?

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Vim: set shiftwidth=4 smarttab

We can afford to just use spaces now

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 point 4 days ago

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

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[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

You expect full tabs in this economy?

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago

Tabs are the cheaper alternative.

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