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Re:“I just chose words carefully” by hiccuphippo on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:28AM (#49509552)
Code editors should do this visually without adding actual space characters to the file.
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Re:“I just chose words carefully” by nasso_dev on Monday August 31, 2026 @10:16AM (#49510095)
why not go even further?

store the source minified without any extraneous whitespace and let the editor display a properly indented view in your preferred style...

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Re:“I just chose words carefully” by hiccuphippo on Monday August 31, 2026 @10:28AM (#49510213)
An AST-based code editor. That would be neat.
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