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Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting

Posted by kdawson on from the one-man's-readable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"

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  1. Tabs vs. Spaces by dziman · · Score: 5, Funny

    FIGHT!

  2. Anyone, anyone? by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ending sentence fragments with anyone, anyone? Does anyone like this convention, anyone? Can we just see it die horribly in flames, anyone?

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  3. Re:Visual Python by broken_chaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    import psychic

    You can then retrieve the exact number of tabs the last editor to that block/line of code had in mind when they wrote it. This does add a bit of overhead, mind you, such as needing a pint of goat's blood every time you run the program.

  4. Re:Why put tabs in code anyway? by Bill+Dog · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean you can't see the brilliance of a preview mode that doesn't match what the real thing will look like? ;)

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  5. Oh cry me a river by overnight_failure · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know this is Slashdot an' all but really? You've got to the point where you have to bitch about tabs settings in MS's development environment. Have MS not been squishing enough small companies or something equally evvvvvvil for you lately? Quick everyone, another example of MS being a horrible overlord, they've combined tabs and indent in Visual Studio!

    *sigh*