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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by dspillett on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:21PM (#36978564)
> tabs ARE objectively better than spaces

It takes two to make an argument, and I think both those viewpoints are wrong!

Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.

(actually, I have an idea for dynamic tabs which might do both jobs better that I need to throw a demo of together to try to convince code editors that it is worth implementing)

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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by IggleSniggle on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:55PM (#36978986)
"Tabs for identation, spaces for alignment" is "tabs for tabulation of hierarchy." Alignment is formatting, not hierarchical.
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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by ttepasse on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:01AM (#36985307)
You may be interested in the wunderfull Elastic Tabstops concept which although it has proof of concepts and plugins for most editors sadly never got widespread adoption:

https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by dspillett on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:41PM (#36994014)
That is almost exactly what I was thinking with "dynamic tabs" (just missing a few extra bits that are probably just me overcomplicating things anyway so wouldn't be in any initial PoC). Thanks for the link, I'll investigate further from there.
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