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Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them
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Why would anyone NOT parse a tab as whitespace? Like, python really wants you to use spaces but will still let you use tabs if you are consistent.
There's the .tsv format too.
Even then, unless for some reason you code on paper, there is no excuse to not have a formatter, that enforces one style, or the other