Tabs vs Spaces
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I would've never thought there could be a good argument for tabs, but this sounds like a good way to satisfy everyone. My only question would be what the code looks like outside the IDE, in GitHub or even Notepad, for example.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.I only care about what it looks like to the one working on the code. When dealing with changes to legacy code, I follow the patter established, which usually means copy/paste of the disparate numbers of spaces depending on the mood of the coder when it was created in notepad :wtf: I really hate the ripple effect that gives - I mean choose an indentation style and stick with it. I'm happiest when working on fresh apps where I can use auto indenting on vscode. So much pleasanter and I can properly collapse the bits I don't need to see right now. Why would I screw that up with using spaces? Just no.
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I only care about what it looks like to the one working on the code. When dealing with changes to legacy code, I follow the patter established, which usually means copy/paste of the disparate numbers of spaces depending on the mood of the coder when it was created in notepad :wtf: I really hate the ripple effect that gives - I mean choose an indentation style and stick with it. I'm happiest when working on fresh apps where I can use auto indenting on vscode. So much pleasanter and I can properly collapse the bits I don't need to see right now. Why would I screw that up with using spaces? Just no.
What does using spaces have to do with collapsing code that you don't need to see right now?
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Quick survey... How many of you uses tabs vs spaces to indent your code?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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What does using spaces have to do with collapsing code that you don't need to see right now?
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.You should see this crazy code. It was like they decided arbitrarily each day where to start their nested content.
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super long lines of code that go all the way off a standard screen with references to deeply nested arrays
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You should see this crazy code. It was like they decided arbitrarily each day where to start their nested content.
codecondition
{
code
condition
{
super long lines of code that go all the way off a standard screen with references to deeply nested arrays
}
other code
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What does using spaces have to do with collapsing code that you don't need to see right now?
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Plus it's way easier to screw up the number of spaces needed. I guess that IDEs can be set to auto indent with spaces, but if someone else goes in there with notepad, it'll be a mess in a hurry. Using tabs discourages the use of notepad. Is that controlling? Maybe. I am a megalomaniac only in the coding, otherwise I'm very accommodating, so I'm comfortable with that.
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You should see this crazy code. It was like they decided arbitrarily each day where to start their nested content.
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code
condition
{
super long lines of code that go all the way off a standard screen with references to deeply nested arrays
}
other code
}That's beyond sloppy. I would reformat it, and anyone who complained would be auditioning for a boys' choir.
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You should see this crazy code. It was like they decided arbitrarily each day where to start their nested content.
codecondition
{
code
condition
{
super long lines of code that go all the way off a standard screen with references to deeply nested arrays
}
other code
}I'm regularly asked by other coders to fix code or tweak code that is formattwed like this, or worse. U like my indents to be a consistant 1/4 inch so the long lines of code don't wrap because they have several levels of indent in them. Just give me Allsup (ANSI) format.
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No, TAB stops are by distance, not character count. A half inch is sufficient.
You've got a point there. Word and WordPad (and many others, I'm sure) default to a proportional font so the default tab is 1/2 inch. Oddly, with a monospace fonts, I don't even consider the distance, per se, but instead a sufficient number of characters to make it read comfortably. Perhaps others do this? In any case, I normally choose 4 characters for the tab length in those files but I may have been influenced by so many editors choosing that same number.
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Quick survey... How many of you uses tabs vs spaces to indent your code?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Indent? That’s really a thing? I just left-align everything. Tried right-align, but that was messy. :)
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Quick survey... How many of you uses tabs vs spaces to indent your code?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
I use spaces (inserted using the Tab key) according to the language: Python - 4 as is the usual setting, HTML/JavaScript: 2 because otherwise indenting of HTML tends to become too high to be comfortable.
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That's beyond sloppy. I would reformat it, and anyone who complained would be auditioning for a boys' choir.
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I think it had to do with what a mechanical typewriter was able to reliably insert. Remember, the tab key didn't shift x spaces, it shifted to the next tab stop, and yes, these were physical stops in a mechanical typewriter. Since these old machines worked on a fixed width font of 8 characters per inch and the physical tab stops were one inch apart, a tab became associated with 8 characters.
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Beer cans used to have tabs...so I prefer tabs. :)
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I fine with that as long as you pick up the tab!
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Quick survey... How many of you uses tabs vs spaces to indent your code?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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Beer cans used to have tabs...so I prefer tabs. :)
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Quick survey... How many of you uses tabs vs spaces to indent your code?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
I use Tabs for Columns, and spaces for strings, Carriage Return/Line Feed for new Row. Makes sense when Using Excel. For notepad it doesn't matter :-)
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Quick survey... How many of you uses tabs vs spaces to indent your code?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
If(spaceToAdd > 1) { Tab(); } else { Space(); } // This is how my brain does it :P
