罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> writes:

>> Note vi defaults to 8 spaces to a tab too.
>> I suspect the non-8 spaces are non-UNIX first editors. I know
>> notepad++ defaults to 4 spaces but I changed the settings there to 8
>> because I actually like 8 spaces to the tab idea; 4 seems too little.
> That‘s why better always using space, so that different editor would show
> it consistence
> I am using vscode.

I agree that in a code style based on spaces, 'compressing' eight spaces
to tabs makes little sense.

The current problem of 'editors configure tabs to a non-standard value
out of the box', however, might be solved by something like an
EditorConfig file, assuming it's not desirable to change the code style
to not compress tabs.

I'm not aware of anything other than EditorConfig that's even remotely
standard (or even cross-editor).
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Arsen Arsenović