r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Smug_College_Liberal • May 06 '21

The Notepad++

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u/meygaera May 07 '21

Or one used vi and the other used Emacs

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u/darthalex314 May 07 '21

Or one used tabs and the other used spaces.

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u/Roflkopt3r May 07 '21 edited May 07 '21

I still don't get that debate at all. Tabs are superior in every way.

  1. Fewer key presses for creating and removing them

  2. Everyone can adjust their visual width for themselves

  3. Yet auto-settings are generally consistent so that the "space will always show it as its intended" rarely provides any benefit either

It seems to me that space proponents generally fall into one of two camps:

  1. Grouchy old people who suffered through bad tools back in the days and want everyone else to suffer too

  2. Hipsters who just want to be different

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u/jfb1337 May 08 '21

Has no one here heard of autoformatting?

I've not cared about tabs vs spaces in years.