Replace the third guy with "tabs with editor configured to three-space width" and you have an accurate representation of my experience. I don't get why it gets so many people upset, even though it's obviously the sweet spot for visually distinct indentation and minimal actual indentation (not my own idea, I think the elastic tab-stops guy suggested it in one of their blogs).
The last time I mentioned this on mastodon someone responded what I consider the best possible way to answer to all of this:
> The optimal tab width is e. It's wide enough to be obvious, but not so wide as to reduce line length too much. Plus, it discourages the use of tabs for alignment by being the number most difficult to approximate with any integer number of spaces.
... and when I say "best possible way" I mean "trolls everyone while making a solid point"
The last time I mentioned this on mastodon someone responded what I consider the best possible way to answer to all of this:
> The optimal tab width is e. It's wide enough to be obvious, but not so wide as to reduce line length too much. Plus, it discourages the use of tabs for alignment by being the number most difficult to approximate with any integer number of spaces.
... and when I say "best possible way" I mean "trolls everyone while making a solid point"
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