(Don’t mistake this as me saying everyone should start using tabs immediately. This would take a drastic overhaul of all textual displays and we’re likely to never see such a thing, but it’s still a cool concept.)
It’s not “solved.” Not trying to dive into yet another tabs vs. spaces argument. But this is just another example of how tabs can be pretty neat when they’re interpreted in a specific way. But it’s up to your editor, plugin, etc. to do so. Take the same text and throw it into an editor that doesn’t use this same interpretation, and it immediately falls apart.
We underutilize tabs. https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
(Don’t mistake this as me saying everyone should start using tabs immediately. This would take a drastic overhaul of all textual displays and we’re likely to never see such a thing, but it’s still a cool concept.)
Good to see tabs’ fundamental flaw was solved. I think I’ll be switching to this.
It’s not “solved.” Not trying to dive into yet another tabs vs. spaces argument. But this is just another example of how tabs can be pretty neat when they’re interpreted in a specific way. But it’s up to your editor, plugin, etc. to do so. Take the same text and throw it into an editor that doesn’t use this same interpretation, and it immediately falls apart.
You can’t unless the tools you’re using to display tabs do it like this. None do, apart from the proof of concept programs on the site.
But it is a cool idea.
I think i saw a vscode plugin on the page