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Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com (gomakethings.com)
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[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To each their own indeed. But my rule of thumb is: only use tabs when there's no other character before it (aka, start of line).

[–] natecox@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The emacs wiki agrees and has the correct take on this: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs

It seems like this basic guideline, tabs to indent and spaces to align, solves the problem for everyone. It doesn’t matter what your tab width is, it’ll look “right” regardless.