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[–] gears@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends on your settings, but yeah typically it does

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It worries me that a programmer wouldn't know for sure what's happening when they hit tab, and that it's a setting that can be changed.

[–] dotMonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I mean I was 99% sure it convert to spaces, I cannot say I was certain. The default settings are fine for what I do, I only ever had to change the spacing from 4 to 2 spaces once when dealing with someone else's files