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Should HTML use tabs or spaces?
Do not use tabs; use two spaces. Tabs are problematic because they can be a different width in different editors (and terminals, for that matter).
What is the difference between tabs and indents?
Remember, there is a difference between indents and tabs. If you set a tab, only one line of text is indented. If you click one of the indent buttons or set an indent in the Paragraph dialog box, all of the text you type afterward will be indented.
How many space bars equal a tab?
8 spaces
When using tabs it’s important to keep in mind that tab characters represent the number of characters until the next 8 character tab stop. Sometimes we can approximate this idea by saying that tabs are equal to 8 spaces.
Does whitespace matter in Golang?
It means that you have to be careful about how you treat whitespace (mostly newlines and how they relate to curly braces), otherwise a semicolon could be inserted where it shouldn’t or gofmt could format your code in a way you didn’t mean to. So, the whitespace is significant in Go too.
Why do I use tabs instead of spaces?
Using tabs is annoying because some editors interpret a tab as 4 spaces, some others as 8 spaces, and some others as 2 spaces, which makes the indentation completely wrong if tabs and spaces are used in the same file. I always use spaces only to avoid this problem.
Which is more profitable, a tab or a space?
Spaces make more money than tabs. There were 28,657 survey respondents who provided an answer to tabs versus spaces and who considered themselves a professional developer (as opposed to a student or former programmer). Within this group, 40.7% use tabs and 41.8% use spaces (with 17.5% using both).
Which is better tabs or spaces in Python?
Python is virtually the only language that got whitespace right to use tabs safely (but still – it offers only little advantage compared to “insert spaces”). Try also other languages, legacy environments, diffs/merges, terminals, sccs to see why tabs are still utopic “ideal”.
Do you use two spaces or two tabs for indentation?
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