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[โ€“] jadero@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The way you explain it sounds like how tabs works in MS Word ( or other word processors ).

That is exactly how they work, and after 40 years, I still struggle with the whole "tab as a shortcut for spaces" thing. It's not that I started with word processors, either, just that as soon I started working with them, everything got so much easier for me.

There are some code-specific things that keep me from just going back to a word processor, but I think our code editors are missing some useful features that are found in word processors.

[โ€“] fluckx@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Generally I'm not very preoccupied with it as the IDE just formats it the way I like it on save :D.