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by lostapathy 3287 days ago
It does, and it's awful.

In theory it would work out ok. In practice, people use different tab widths, and don't always notice they are "wrong" when doing a quick change. Next thing you know, you've got spacing like your tab width should be 2, 4, and 8 spaces and you really have a mess.

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>don't always notice they are "wrong" when doing a quick change.

I can't understand this! First thing I do when I open up an editor is show whitespace characters. They are part of the source code this should be always be displayed! It would feel wrong to code without showing whitespace.

If you can see your whitespace you can tell right away that it's wrong.