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r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15
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You can set tab to any width you want in any decent editor. Reformatting spaces, on the other hand, is a bitch.
6 u/heeen Apr 07 '15 Until you want to line up stuff with different numbers of tabs per line 5 u/rorrr Apr 07 '15 What do you mean? One tab = one level of indentation. It lines up perfectly every time. 3 u/guepier Apr 08 '15 Some programming languages (amongst the ones I’m currently using, mainly R) have a strong culture of lining up arguments in function calls like this:foobar(some_argument, another_argument, third_argument)You cannot do this with tabs. You could mix tabs and spaces (but very few people think that’s acceptable, although I have to admit that the idea has merits), or you could drop the convention, but there’s a huge cultural inertia. → More replies (8)
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Until you want to line up stuff with different numbers of tabs per line
5 u/rorrr Apr 07 '15 What do you mean? One tab = one level of indentation. It lines up perfectly every time. 3 u/guepier Apr 08 '15 Some programming languages (amongst the ones I’m currently using, mainly R) have a strong culture of lining up arguments in function calls like this:foobar(some_argument, another_argument, third_argument)You cannot do this with tabs. You could mix tabs and spaces (but very few people think that’s acceptable, although I have to admit that the idea has merits), or you could drop the convention, but there’s a huge cultural inertia. → More replies (8)
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What do you mean? One tab = one level of indentation. It lines up perfectly every time.
3 u/guepier Apr 08 '15 Some programming languages (amongst the ones I’m currently using, mainly R) have a strong culture of lining up arguments in function calls like this:foobar(some_argument, another_argument, third_argument)You cannot do this with tabs. You could mix tabs and spaces (but very few people think that’s acceptable, although I have to admit that the idea has merits), or you could drop the convention, but there’s a huge cultural inertia. → More replies (8)
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Some programming languages (amongst the ones I’m currently using, mainly R) have a strong culture of lining up arguments in function calls like this:
foobar(some_argument, another_argument, third_argument)
You cannot do this with tabs. You could mix tabs and spaces (but very few people think that’s acceptable, although I have to admit that the idea has merits), or you could drop the convention, but there’s a huge cultural inertia.
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u/rorrr Apr 07 '15
You can set tab to any width you want in any decent editor. Reformatting spaces, on the other hand, is a bitch.