Spaces because copy paste is predictable. Vim because I need an editor, modal is perfect, and for the rest I use tmux anyway.
The great debate
Mason Wilson
Aaron Mitchell
Even the vi creator thinks it's shit now that we don't use slow teletypes.
Dominic Howard
junior college student computer engineer students can't handle spaces?
Carter Baker
haha vim btfo
Gabriel Thompson
Explain. As long as some retard didn't use spaces for indentation it shouldn't matter what width your editor displays tabs as.
Cooper Thomas
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Caleb Hernandez
Both. Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.
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>vim or emacs?
vim
Ryan Wilson
+ full control over indentation and alignment in a matrix-like display (any monospaced font)
+ looks exactly the same in every computer
- takes up more disk space (but who the fuck cares)
- contributors to a project must configure their editors to use the same amount of spaces
+ just werks, regardless of editor config
- what looks good with one configuration may not look as well aligned with another one
- may not look exactly pretty depending on how you want to align something
+ "ackshully, it's semantically correct"
- unless your editor displays spaces and tabs differently, you may end up fucking up and making it look wonky in other configs
- actually have to spam space like a dumbass whenever you want to align something
- some indent sensitive languages may subtly break HOLY FUCKING SHIT
- copypasting is a fucking oddissey
Why would ANYONE pick anything other than spaces only?
Jose Wright
What does this do?
Nicholas Anderson
A screen editor wouldn't be usable on a teletype. You would use a LINE editor like ed.
And he didn't say its "shit". He just said the design is the way it is because of having to use a slow modem connected terminal.
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