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Is a tab four spaces or two?
A tab is not made of spaces, it goes to the next tab stop, which is as big as you set it to be.
This isn't your argument, neighbor.
I'll just wish you good day then.
Let's all compromise on three spaces
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Ouch. This hurts. This hurts so much.
Can we make it π spaces? It's such a nice number.
Neither, it's an actual tab character
This is the correct answer. Also it's going to depend on whether your environment (i.e. is it an actual word processor vs. a text editor?) allows for margins and tabs to be set.
IT'S FOUR.
Hi, it's your friendly nano user here to remind you that it's actually 8.
It's your right to be wrong.
No it's not!
Wait...
Which IDE is best?
IDEs are for script kiddies, real programmers use vim.
Nah, real programmers use echo, cat, and pipes
Nah, real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand
Vim is ok, useful when you don't have an ide handy, but making a complex multiplatform distributed system across multiple teams and repos in such a limited application is just bonkers. Downright lunacy.
Behold: HUML, a markup language so opinionated that it forces its users to use an indentation of exactly 2 spaces https://huml.io/specifications/v0-1-0/#indentation
Honestly I like the rest of the specification and being opinionated definitely has its advantages, but I hate using 2 spaces for indentation. Maybe the people who were using tabs for indentation were actually on to something ...
Hot take: it depends on the language.