> Whats wrong with this? I just accept the defaults. Whether that is what the current project demands or what the editor defaults to.

There's your answer: if letting your editor do whatever and not caring to 'waste time over these things' means you've committed a bunch of code ignorant of the convention respected by the rest of the project, that's not that great.

I did say "what the current project demands". I did not say "I just push whatever I feel like". Again, I don't see the problem with not caring and just going with what others have picked.

Yes, sorry, I meant that you answered your own question when you said that.

Frankly, if over 90% of your peers are using a given editor/ide, odds are they're using the defaults... as trying to get everyone to change the defaults is painful. Having spent years fighting this in some environments, it's far easier to accept.

If your editor supports a common config format (.editorconfig), then use that... if you're all using the same IDE, then best to adapt to the defaults (mostly).

There are two very different reasons for this same answer: the don't care vs the don't know. Not caring is fine, not knowing is concerning.

ok so don't answer "whatarespaces?", got it.

I assume from this response that you have never worked with someone who created semi-constant issues because they didn't realize that .vimrc they copied from GitHub was silently turning spaced into tabs whenever they saved a file.

You are a lucky, lucky person.