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Re:Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces by C1sc0cat on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:18AM (#20381422)
The problem I have (also a dyslexic) with tabs vs spaces is you cant (normaly) see tabs.

The old school 80 column fixed layouts like Fortran had did have its advantages.

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Re:Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces by enriquto on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:46AM (#20381570)
> The problem I have (also a dyslexic) with tabs vs spaces is you cant (normaly) see tabs.

There is probably no editor program in your computer right now that is not able to display tabs visually.

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Re:Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces by C1sc0cat on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:53AM (#20381613)
Yes I know but I am not working with with those fugly show white space settings turned on.

Like one of the previous commentators I am a dyslexic and I find displayed tabs CR etc very visually distracting

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Re:Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces by carlmr on Monday July 08, 2019 @07:01AM (#20381646)
VSCode doesn't display the CR and with the boundary setting doesn't show whitespace when it's a single space between words.
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