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dbdrlast Tuesday at 8:57 PM1 replyview on HN

That's precisely the point of using tabs for indentation: you don't need to fight over it, because it's a local display preference that does not affect the source code at all, so everyone can just configure whatever they prefer locally without affecting other people.

The idea of "skins" is apparently to push that even further by abstracting the concrete syntax.


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lucketonelast Tuesday at 9:28 PM

> you don't need to fight over it, because it's a local display preference

This has limits.

Files produced with tab=2 and others with tab=8, might have quite different result regarding nesting.

(pain is still on the menu)

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