The seemingly simple fact was found in the raw data from Stack Overflow’s 2017 Developer Survey. 28,657 programmers responded to the question asking whether they use spaces or tabs. Spaces were ...

The Linux expand and unexpand commands can turn tabs into spaces and spaces into tabs, and the sed and awk commands can help. The Linux expand and unexpand commands sound like they can make files ...

Analysis of the data from the Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey indicates that, ‘using spaces instead of tabs is associated with an 8.6% higher salary.’ Analysis of the data from the Stack Overflow ...

For decades, the tabs versus spaces debate has been a heated discussion among coders. The issue is so widespread it crossed over to an episode of “Silicon Valley” last year, with Richard (Thomas ...

I recently switched to Vim from emacs and im starting to like it a lot more. However, the automatic tabs it puts in when im editing code is much longer than i want. emacs puts in a two space tab in ...

Word processing has been around for a long time, and the techniques seem ingrained in our psyche. Yet every once in a while, I run across a document that uses multiple spaces instead of tabs to align ...