>From what I can tell, zero-width tabs. Terrible script to write Python
in... But fine for the compacted JavaScript sent by most servers.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, 2:07 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:04 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> >
> > There's a reason that never in the last 3800 years since Proto-Sinaitic
> was the first human script to approximately represent phonemes, has text
> EVER been set at more than 80 characters as a widespread convention.
> >
>
> What did they use as a tab width though?
>
> ChrisA
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