• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      And yet, that is its default definition regardless of operating system.

      That’s also why almost every IDE out there has tabs auto-set to 4 spaces, and/or gives the user to change it away from 8 spaces.

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        2 months ago

        And yet, that is its default definition regardless of operating system.

        Defined by what? When does the os, rather than a program, determine how many spaces a tab is?