It is SO STUPID that spaces are widely preferred for indentation in code.
For the past, I don’t know, two hours I’ve been trying to fix YAML formatting issues that could have been fixed without any human intervention if only tabs were used. (It’s a big file, hence the duration.) (I know YAML doesn’t support tabs. That’s kind of my point.)
I even reluctantly asked Gemini (forced upon me by work; I was hoping it would change my mind in this case) why anyone would prefer spaces. It said the same irrelevant thing most people say: because some tools don’t support tabs properly.
Know what that sounds like to me? A problem with the fucking tool.
I don’t know if this is the right place to post this, but I can’t think of a better option.
My text editor will use spaces if it is in the liter file or how it auto detects in yaml files etc
The experience is no different when using tab / shift+tab
The experience of entering the text isn’t the part to which I object.
Claiming that spaces as indentation are functionally equivalent to tabs is what inspires my objection.
I don’t think you gave an example in your original post as how tabs would have solved your problem, and dealing with yaml a lot myself I can’t imagine exactly what may have happened besides incorrect indentation
I get rich errors with yaml language server and I configure it with spec files for kubernetes manifests so it tells me exactly where my issues are