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[–] [email protected] 74 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The sole purpose of the tab key is for instructing the editor to insert four spaces.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To insert a........ TAB. Not four or any n number of space but TAB

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

After years of ass-whopping by python interpreter for stray tab characters, I'm now mentally rejecting the existence of tab character in my computing devices.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Isnt that only because you "mixed" spaces with tabs? I have had no issues with python and tabs with no spaces for intendation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yep the ASCII table just goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, …

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

*three spaces.

Actually, let's make that two.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

They fear us. We have to hide in the shadows.

But this is just one more example of our superiority - a perfect compromise between the file size and the nightmare that is two different invisible characters

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cycling through buttons, atl+tab, Ctrl+tab, some other fourth thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

something something real linux users don't use gui and tab completion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You can take my Cinnamon GUI from my cold dead hands.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And indent according to my major mode.