Are we still doing tabs vs. spaces? I ran into this with Make. It was long ago, but certain lines had to start with a tab. Others could use spaces. Someone has their gmacs setup so when you indented ...
When it comes to indentation, there’s a right way and a wrong way. The right way, of course, is with spaces. Those who use tabs aren’t just doing it wrong, but they’re also cheating themselves out of ...
The seemingly simple fact was found in the raw data from Stack Overflow’s 2017 Developer Survey. 28,657 programmers responded to the question asking whether they use spaces or tabs. Spaces were ...
I always had tabs set to 4 in my .exrc, and screw the other guy who didn't do that and got hung-over lines - 8 characters is just too damn much whitespace down the left side of the screen, and two is ...