• edward@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    if you change tab with then your space alignment breaks

    No, it doesn’t? Here’s the exact same text content with different tab widths:

    The tabs are smaller but the spaces are the same, so the alignment remains.

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      1 year ago

      Ah, I see what you mean, out of instinct I’d have put one more tab on the “whatever” line, which would break the concept. But if you manually do both the indent + alignment in spaces then it works.

      Besides your IDE of choice screaming at you that you are mixing tabs and spaces that is :)

      It still feels like a hack though, simply going with spaces is more uniform and works everywhere. Especially as a lot of code is viewed in browsers nowadays (GitHub, GitLab, …) and tabs are often a mess in those environments.

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        1 year ago

        Besides your IDE of choice screaming at you that you are mixing tabs and spaces that is

        JetBrains IDEs actually have it built in, it’s called “smart tabs”.