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Allow enforcing tabs over spaces

See original GitHub issue

For teams where the code style is tabs instead of spaces (boo!), linting needs a way to enforce that 4x gets replaced with tabs.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)

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sensibleishcommented, Feb 1, 2018

The Markdown spec at https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics contains the string “4 spaces or 1 tab” twice. Lint rule MD010 doesn’t seem valid, at least not as a blanket rule.

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NatoBoramcommented, Feb 21, 2022

You having seen “many projects” imposing different standards shouldn’t undermine the usability of your project. Linting tools shouldn’t promote unwanted practices nor force different standards.

MD010 simply never applies. It should be a toggle between spaces or tabs.

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