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The sole purpose of the tab key is for instructing the editor to insert four spaces.
To insert a........ TAB. Not four or any n number of space but TAB
After years of ass-whopping by python interpreter for stray tab characters, I'm now mentally rejecting the existence of tab character in my computing devices.
Isnt that only because you "mixed" spaces with tabs? I have had no issues with python and tabs with no spaces for intendation
Yep the ASCII table just goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, …
*three spaces.
Actually, let's make that two.
2 space gang represent.
They fear us. We have to hide in the shadows.
But this is just one more example of our superiority - a perfect compromise between the file size and the nightmare that is two different invisible characters
Cycling through buttons, atl+tab, Ctrl+tab, some other fourth thing.
something something real linux users don't use gui and tab completion
You can take my Cinnamon GUI from my cold dead hands.
And indent according to my major mode.