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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. Why put tabs in code anyway? by harryjohnston · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    One of the first things I've always done when setting up Visual Studio on a new computer is to set the option to insert spaces instead of tab characters. I find tab characters, to put it bluntly, irritating and utterly unnecessary. (You can imagine my opinion on standard makefile syntax!)

    So, for all those tab fans, what is it about tabs that you find useful?