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This is the way. I had not considered this before reading your comment.

If this system results in syntactically identical code [1] it should not matter if it’s displaying for you differently [2] if it means you can read or write around or in it more comfortably it’s just a hairstyle.

I was asked to familiarize myself with Replit the other day and it seemed the editor defaulted to two spaces for Python. Two spaces?! I changed it to four.

A friend joined my session and began to code with me, their editor was in the default two space indentation. It was madness.

[1] This seems like is a decent sized presumption across many languages and versions.

[2] This seems like an interesting AI problem, showing code structures you’ve never used in your style you’ve never defined.




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