On 14/10/18 09:06, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
On 2018-10-14 00:45:49 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2018-10-13, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote:
For "just use tabs" to work, all of those tools would have to
magically recognize that they're looking at Python source and adjust
the tab size accordingly. That isn't going to happen.
Well, no. The idea of "just use tabs" isn't have a different tab width
per language, but a different tab width per user.
You work in a different environment than I do. for me, tab width
varies from one project to another (sometimes even in the same
language). I don't get to pick just one tab width.
You probably don't because you use spaces, not tabs.
If everybody used tabs, why would anyone care about your tab width?
Unless they look over your shoulder while you are typing, they won't
even know how wide your tabs are.
If you used two-space tab stops and I used (the normal :-) eight,
comfortable indentations for you would rapidly become uncomfortably
large indentations for me. I'd care about that. I'd also care if you
used spaces to make sub-tab stop adjustments to line up appropriate text
(inside brackets, for example).
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