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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tabs could be a good idea if their default size in most environments (and often not configurable) wasn't 8, which is terribly big.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

most environments

What environment are you using that have tabs set to 8?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Many terminal emulators (may or may not be configurable), including Termux for Android (not configurable)
  • GitHub (by default)
  • SourceHut (not configurable)
  • Vim/Neovim (by default)
  • HTML (by default, I think)

Honestly, I can't think of an environment that doesn't have 8-space tabs by default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting...

Every IDE and editor (gui and tui) I've used has always come preconfigured with a tab-size of 4.

The only thing I've ever experienced having a tab-size of 8 was github, and I thought that was just a problem with a setting from github's size that I quickly set back to 4.

It seems that tui editors come with tab-sizes of 8 only when a config isn't provided, and every environment I've used where I've used a tui editor has always come with sensible configs (for things like config location, language recognition for syntax highlighting, etc...) including a tab-size of 4.