How hard is it to rebuild `zig fmt` so it indents with the tab character instead of 4 spaces for a Zig newcomer?

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Indentation with spaces looks horrible with the renderWhitespace setting in VSCodium.

How hard is it to rebuild zig fmt so it indents with the tab character instead of 4 spaces for a Zig newcomer?

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It wouldn’t be hard. but pretty pointless. Better for the newcomer to embrace the language than fight it.

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The Cubyz project seems to do this by maintining a custom version of zig fmt. That seems like it would introduce a lot of extra work though.

I agree with @pachde, when in Rome…

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Besides, rendering whitespace is more or less pointless when you know that there can’t be any tabs.

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Cubyz maintainer here, it’s actually not that hard. You can see the full list of changes here: Apply changes to run the formatter in the Cubyz codebase · ziglang/zig@83e3b93 · GitHub and that includes other formatting changes too. The only hard part is that it requires changing the standard library, since the formatting code is in the std lib.

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I didn’t ask about what’s better and what’s pointless.
Thank you for you effort.

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Thank you for you insight.

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I didn’t ask about what’s pointless and what’s not.
Thank’s for the effort.

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Thank you very much!
This is the answer I was looking for.