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While this question is of particular interest to the technical sites, and especially to Software, it concerns core site functionality. I figured it would be more polite to ask than to make a "sandb...
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Karl Knechtel
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2023-12-08T02:36:21Z (12 months ago)
How are tabs handled in code blocks?
While this question is of particular interest to the technical sites, and especially to Software, it concerns core site functionality. I figured it would be more polite to ask than to make a "sandbox" post. I'm planning to write some canonical Q&A about `IndentationError`s in Python for the Software site. This requires discussing code that is broken because some lines of text start with some inappropriate mixture of tab and space characters. Similar (non-canonical; I have been rounding up old duplicates lately) questions on Some Other site have had issues because the site automatically converted tabs to spaces in formatted code blocks, destroying the information needed to demonstrate and discuss the problem. Are tabs automatically converted on Codidact? If so, to how many spaces? Better yet: is there any way to make tabs appear highlighted in the code display, so that it's immediately apparent that the code is indented with tabs rather than spaces?