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by DrSiemer 333 days ago
Meanwhile, the war on tab width marches on. Back when I got tired of inconsistent tab widths, I simply based my preference on the silly fact that some research showed how developers using two spaced tabs make slightly more money.

Among our team we do not enforce a specific width, but respecting the choice of the original author of a project is required.

Kind of annoying how LLMs will sometimes randomly decide to change tab width.

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If you enforce a specific width it's dumb to use tabs, just use spaces
I don't think anybody in our team uses tabs, but afaik you still call it tab width
It's called indentation, and your team apparently uses a fixed number of spaces as chosen by the author.