Re: Pretty Print

Simple answer: don't use tab characters in code. Any decent modern editor understands how to indent code using spaces and most will unindent with backspace too.

Tab characters in code lead to too much strangeness as code moves about between different editors and display technologies. It's not like storage is so expensive these days that the small file size difference is important any more. Just do it, eschew tab characters.

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Re^2: Pretty Print (textarea) by LanX (Saint) on May 31, 2016 at 13:37 UTC
> don't use tab characters in code I agree, but we do also c&p printed output including tabs. But having the textarea showing another behavior (8 char tab stops) compared to the rendered code (4 chars per \t) is unfortunate. At least we could try to adjust the textarea, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3379091/is-it-possible-to-change-width-of-tab-symbol-in-textarea (which wouldn't fix tab vs tabstop incompatibility, I'm afraid. ) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply]

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Re^2: Pretty Print (textarea)
by LanX (Saint) on May 31, 2016 at 13:37 UTC

> don't use tab characters in code

I agree, but we do also c&p printed output including tabs.

But having the textarea showing another behavior (8 char tab stops) compared to the rendered code (4 chars per \t) is unfortunate.

At least we could try to adjust the textarea, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3379091/is-it-possible-to-change-width-of-tab-symbol-in-textarea

(which wouldn't fix tab vs tabstop incompatibility, I'm afraid. )

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

Je suis Charlie!}

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