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Re:The TypeScript compiler is now implemented internally wit... by ghusbands on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:00PM (#33456657)
> > If you had used tabs, changing the tab size would make it align all wrong.

> This is clearly false. You said this after giving a perfect example of how it's done with tabs.

I believe the post you're replying to meant "used more tabs". That is, if you used any tabs beyond the code indentation, they would get altered when you change the indentation size and ruin the alignment.

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Re:The TypeScript compiler is now implemented internally wit... by sublinear on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:38AM (#33462259)
This was indeed the misunderstanding.

When I made my original comment I thought what I was replying to was an example of "tabs to indent and spaces to align" immediately followed by a statement that the only way to use tabs is to both indent and align.

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