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Three Spaces Of Formatting Chaos
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Three Spaces Of Formatting Chaos

Description

A dark-themed code editor shows a `.prettierrc` file with a breadcrumb-like header reading ".prettierrc > # tabWidth". The visible JSON-like configuration spans three lines: line 1 has `{`, line 2 has `"tabWidth": 3`, and line 3 has `}`. The humor is that Prettier and similar formatters are meant to end style arguments, but setting indentation to three spaces creates a new kind of formatting provocation between the usual two-space and four-space camps. It is a compact joke about configuration, code style enforcement, and developer tribalism over whitespace.

Categories

Configuration Tooling CodeQuality IDEs Editors Frontend

Common Tags

CodeFormatting ConfigurationFile TabsVsSpacesDebate CodeStyleGuides DeveloperTooling CodingStandards Tooling DeveloperPreferences CodeReadability Json LintingRules ConfigurationManagement DeveloperTribalism JavaScriptEcosystem

Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Two-space and four-space teams spent years arguing, then someone shipped an odd number and invalidated the whole RFC.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Two-space and four-space teams spent years arguing, then someone shipped an odd number and invalidated the whole RFC.

  2. @melanzan 6y

    bruh..

    1. @frayxrulez 6y

      piedini

  3. @RiedleroD 6y

    only a monster would do this

  4. @Mazmiy 6y

    What a fu**?

  5. @TERASKULL 6y

    It's not a bug, but a feature

    1. @Bender666 6y

      How those posts are made? First text and after that a photo?

      1. @TERASKULL 6y

        afaik the images are actually links with image previews.

        1. @Bender666 6y

          Thank you for explanation.

  6. @HolyReaper 6y

    I wish someday I can make kind of tabWidth = 3.5 :D

    1. @ipaal 6y

      3.9*

    2. @mikpskov 6y

      or 3.49999999999

  7. @sharp_mechanix 6y

    That was the guy who started on Pascal

  8. @skiqqy 6y

    No

  9. @sharp_mechanix 6y

    As far as i can remember, there was a convention to use 3 spaces as indentation

    1. @AmindaEU 6y

      Where is 3 used? I remember only seeing 2 and 4 around

      1. @sharp_mechanix 6y

        In Pascal/Delphi I don't code on those, but started from Pascal back in the day

        1. @AmindaEU 6y

          Thanks :)

          1. @sharp_mechanix 6y

            I may be wrong though, you better double-check

  10. @Daler_XYZ 6y

    It's a Web?

  11. @sharp_mechanix 6y

    And what I saw there is three spaces indentation

  12. @evilyach 6y

    Dank

  13. @UQuark 6y

    You're wrong

    1. @AmindaEU 6y

      How does one become a psychopath then? I am not sure if I want to though

  14. @UQuark 6y

    Delphi has 3 spaces indentation

  15. @BigBlackMobile 6y

    Fuck you, leather man

  16. @sunnydaily 6y

    buddy you entered the wrong door

  17. @sunnydaily 6y

    russian community is two chats down

  18. @BigBlackMobile 6y

    Fisting for 300$

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