Yep, like I said: the faster the Elixir community sets this as the standard, the less people will suffer 
sotojuan
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AstonJ
riverrun
I usually go with whatever the standard for that language seems to be, so tabs for C, 2 spaces for Elixir and Html, and 4 spaces for most other languages.
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mkunikow
bryan-ash
OvermindDL1
Old thread, but someone above linked to this link: L'ESPRIT DE COMBINAISON(!!) That
However at this section: December, 1780, your lordship
There is a better way: use tabs for expressing the indentation level and spaces for alignment.
int f(int x, ......int y) { --->return g(x, --->.........y); }
This is precisely what I do almost everywhere (except elixir because friggin spaces are prevalent in elixir, so I follow the pattern, ugh). I’ve been a big pusher for this style for over 2 decades now. You have custom indention levels, proper alignment, everything.
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JonGretar
There is a better way: use tabs for expressing the indentation level and spaces for alignment
Yeah it’s what I usually do… I don’t see why others don’t. Each user can us their preferred indentation size and everything still always aligns as the writer intended.
I of course write code in other people projects as they prefer the code to be. But in my house we use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment.
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rvirding
Creator of Erlang
Do you mean use the tab KEY to step to the right indentation level but have space characters in the file then I agree. If you mean have tab characters in the actual file then I disagree. Having tab chars only works if everyone can agree on the size of a tab otherwise it totally screws things up.
All you need to do is to set indent-tabs-mode to nil and you are set. 
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JonGretar
How does it screw everything up?
If the tab CHAR is used for indentation but with added spaces the few times some alignment is needed then the visual impact of the code is the same for everyone no matter what they have have tab spacing set to. Giving the each person the ability to have a preference without it ever affecting others in any way and still everyone will see the code correctly aligned as intended.
If you look at the example OvermindDL1 gave just above then this code will be the same everywhere. x will always align with y wether or not the viewer has his tabs size set to 4, 2 or 11 spaces.
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OvermindDL1
Tab as indention and space as alignment always works perfectly, and each use can set their own tab size and it auto-adjusts as expected, such as in my prior quoted example:
// 4-tabstop
int f(int x,
......int y) {
--->return g(x,
--->.........y);
}
// 2-tabstop
int f(int x,
......int y) {
->return g(x,
->.........y);
}
// 8-tabstop
int f(int x,
......int y) {
------->return g(x,
------->.........y);
}
So the int y is always aligned, since spaces are used for alignment, the indention of the return block (and its after-aligned y) adjust as expected, etc… Been programming this way for almost two decades.
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