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Re:I am an 80 column purist by saagarjha on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:34AM (#25253096)
Fixing the width of a tab is akin to trying to define the value of x to be 3.
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Re:I am an 80 column purist by huhtenberg on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:35AM (#25253109)
I have no idea what you mean.
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Re:I am an 80 column purist by saagarjha on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:39AM (#25253145) 

  set tabsize 4
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Re:I am an 80 column purist by huhtenberg on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:51AM (#25253225)
Sure, you can set it to 4 and a properly formatted code will just adjust. That's granted, but irrelevant. The question is in usability of different tab sizes.
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