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Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com (gomakethings.com)
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[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's your point ? You can use vim on termux and set the tabsize to whatever you want for example.

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Also :exorcise is only a quick pluginstall away, anyway. /s

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, but if you use something like cat, head, less, etc. to view code, or the Python REPL, you're still going to see the default tab size.

[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

You can set the tabstop with less -x*n*. But ok I see what you mean. I still stand by my point though. If termux doesn't support setting tabstops and it's an issue, then it's a bug in termux, not a reason to level down your formatting standard.