Tabs have been 8 characters wide by default since ages. And there's a good reason for that: Tabs are not meant for indentation, they are meant for tables. And tables less than 4 characters wide are rather rare.
Setting tab stops every 4 characters is an abomination invented by people misusing tabs for indentation.
-- The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by maxwell demon on Wednesday March 30 2022, @06:03AM
Tabs have been 8 characters wide by default since ages. And there's a good reason for that: Tabs are not meant for indentation, they are meant for tables. And tables less than 4 characters wide are rather rare.
Setting tab stops every 4 characters is an abomination invented by people misusing tabs for indentation.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.