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Re:Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language ar... by fuzztester on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @06:21PM (#43260813)
>Can you not adjust your tab stops?

I've used this in vim for years:

:se expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4

(those can be abbreviated, check docs)

Then:

I use only tabs for indentation.

All the tabs get expanded to four spaces each.

Indenting and unindenting lines or blocks of lines, moves them by four spaces.

Never had a problem.

Maybe there are more fancy ways, but this works fine for me.

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Re:Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language ar... by worik on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:21PM (#43262263)
> I use only tabs for indentation.

> All the tabs get expanded to four spaces each.

Then Python will not work (?)

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Re:Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language ar... by fuzztester on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:18AM (#43263473)
Sure it will work. Even before I discovered this method (which is simple), I was using four spaces typed manually, for indentation in Python, for years.

Maybe it is you who "will not work".

Did you try it before commenting? I already said it works fine.

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Re:Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language ar... by fuzztester on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:34PM (#43273659)
e.g. for tabstop, use ts, and for shiftwidth, use sw.
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