• xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    The horizontal tabulation character moves the cursor to the next column which is a multiple of the tabulation length. See the examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key

    At least for me, it renders like this:

    Screenshot of a part of the linked Wikipedia page

    Clearly the whitespace produced by each tab character has a different length.

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      1 year ago

      The horizontal tabulation character moves the cursor to the next column which is a multiple of the tabulation length. See the examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key

      Yes

      Clearly the whitespace produced by each tab character has a different length.

      No, each tab has the same size, the text rendered over the top of the tabs are not the same size.

      Always remember the golden rule: Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.