[flukus]

> I don't see why people spend time on this.

Because control freaks still can't accept personal preferences and insist on uniformity, the idea that I won't indentation to look slightly different on my computer than it does on there's is a heresy. If they world were up to them they'd enforce other things like editor schemes, in fact some have tried to: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Modeline_magic

First shalt thou press the Holy Tab. Then, shalt thou space to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt space, and the number of the spacing shall be three. Four shalt thou not space, nor either space thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, writest thou thy Holy code.

[kazinator]

The last thing we want is control freaks preparing instructions for machines to execute.

Control freaks should be in politics, management, education, nursing and such, and stay the hell out of software.