Post #687324
2026-03-16 21:45 UTC
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@vbernat/116240955542340468
I guess the question of tabs versus spaces is finally settled for me.
Replies (4)
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@zhenech@chaos.social 2026-03-16 21:52
@bremner spiced up a with an AGENTS.md mandating an editorconfig of indent_style=tab indent_size=3 tab_width=5
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@me_@sueden.social 2026-03-16 22:12
@bremner Make, invented by Stuart Feldman in 1976, was criticised for using tabs in Makefiles. Now this might save us from LLMs, nice! 😂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)
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@geoffl@mastodon.me.uk 2026-03-16 22:33
@bremner TABs should only be used for tabular data.* *bought to you by the same people who created "HTML tables should only be used for tabular data."
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@qwazix@bananachips.club 2026-03-16 22:41
@bremner find / -type f -exec sed -i s/\s\s/\t/g