One tab saves you eight spaces

>one tab saves you eight spaces
What did he mean by this?

Literally who?

And it's not like you actually type in the 8 spaces.

>not like you actually type in the 8 spaces
Wait, you don't?

>8-space tabs
How many cracks do you have to smoke to get this high?

He literally (LITERALLY) meant, striking the TAB key once is equal to striking the SPACE BAR eight times. Fuck fampai.

>his editor doesn't convert tab strokes into spaces automatically
What the fuck are you using? Vim?

But it isn't

set expandtab

tab is equal to 4 spaces not 8

set tabstop=8

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>press tab
>automatically converted to 4 spaces
>implying people that use spaces actually press the space bar
this show sucks

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>using Notepad

Opinion discarded.

autoindent

>notepad
>windows 7
>"screenpresso"

Opinion very discarded.

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Tabs are for men, spaces are for autists.

>1 tab
>saves you eight spaces
If it's 8 or 1, then it saves you 7 keypresses.

Meh, this is a work pc and screenspresso is cringe worthy but there's nothing wrong with notepad. In fact, someone with half a brain would understand that notepad is the perfect environment for verifying the number of spaces that would equal a tab given that it's the default text editor in a very well established OS. FFS.

Have you forgotten most of Sup Forums have some degree of autism?

he said spaces not keypesses

I said keypresses, not spaces.

>8 space tabs
>not 4 or even 2

Idec familia, i let pycharm manage that shit for me...

No, he meant using actual tab characters, like \t, for indentation.

They had a specific point about "your code looking different on other people's computers"

Tabs look like fucking shit on most editors/viewers, and for a good reason

If you don't configure your text editor to put 4 spaces when hitting tab, you're retarded

I'm sure you could find/configure an editor to put the equivalent of 32, 1000 or 5 million spaces when using tab

this doesn't prove shit

Notepad++, you fucking dingus.

>your code looking different on other people's computers
I've never seen such case.
I saw my files opened in a bunch of os/editor combinations and they always looked the same.

and you use actual tab characters?

yes

Huh. I was just quoting what they said on Silicon Valley, and I assumed it was pretty much true.

Good to know.

>implying i use tabs
I use space bar faggot. The only time i use tabs is when forced into it.