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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by kyle-rb on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:32PM (#14562449)
Since tab indenters have characters indistinguishable from spaces that are a different width from any other character on the screen I wonder what other bizarre escape codes are in their source

To me it makes as much sense as having invisible characters scattered throughout your code, but tab indenters have gone beyond their delusion now

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by raverbashing on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:44PM (#14562569)
> Since tab indenters have characters indistinguishable from spaces

Most editors can be made to highlight it

> that are a different width from any other character on the screen

Yes, and? That's its purpose and it can be configured to your preferred value (beyond unicode)

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Re:Developers who use spaces make more money than those who ... by cellularmitosis on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:48PM (#14566541)
The best ones can, but by far, most can't.
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