Re^2: How has your coding style changed over the years?

> Oh, and I do care a single * about leading tabs or spaces even if you mix them. I don't see them. My editor does the right thing

If someone is using an indentation different to 4 you'll get ugly results. (That's actually a running gag in code sections posted here, because browsers still default to tab=8)

The only right thing your editor can do is reindenting all the code, which will result in a full diff when checking into version control.

And even with indent 4 calling untabify (or whatever it's called in vim) will cause unwanted diffs.

My strategy is to commit the untabified version first. But doing this everytime a colleague touched the file might get annoying.

So this question is of relevance when working in a team, IMHO. (And yes certainly YMMV)

Cheers Rolf
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Re^3: How has your coding style changed over the years? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 08, 2022 at 12:58 UTC
(That's actually a running gag in code sections posted here, because browsers still default to tab=8) this seems to have been fixed in the CSS or at least for Chrome `for my $x (@a) { print; # 1 tab print; # 4 blanks }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]