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by th0ma5 2549 days ago
I wouldn't necessarily recommend jEdit, but I'm sure a lot of editors have a soft tabs feature like it. And with linters I can't imagine you couldn't just run your local fork with which ever have the integration make the production version be which ever. Anyway... I personally don't care what you do so long as you try to do the simplest and least and obvious thing.
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Exactly. I think this debate is kind of outdated, we have tools now to deal with stuff like this. Even the OP argument of the visually impaired doesn’t really matter as long as you set your auto formatted to use block indentation and no alignment (sorry gofmt!). Just use a font face the smooshes the whitespace together if you need small indentation with a large font size, or one that draws it out if you need to exaggerate it.