Some people are fans of 4 spaces, some people are fans of tabs , some people like 2 spaces. Wouldn’t it be nice if they all found a space to code happily in ObservableHQ? Right now if I hit [Tab] the editor inserts a Tab character. Then I write my line of code and hit and the editor inserts two sp…

Check out the issue for enabling prettier for some of the thinking here behind the scenes - the gist is, well: The current literal-tabs-and-then-inferred-spaces behavior is, pardon my french, bad, and we’re going to replace it ASAP with expandtab style behavior that at least doesn’t leave you with…

Gregor! We’ve updated our indentation behavior. Now, soft tabs with two spaces of indentation is the default — both in CodeMirror’s auto indentation capacity, and when you hit the Tab key. You can also select complete lines of code and hit Tab to indent them. When you’re editing your TSVs: to inse…

Update! [image] "prettier" code formatting sparkles Update: Prettier-powered autoformatting is now available to folks to test. sparkles Open your browser console localStorage.tryPrettier = true Evaluate cells with Shift-Enter or by clicking the arrow_forward button, an…

Tom, this works! I presume you shared this update for us to beta test and check it out, and it’s not the final code formatting options solution design. Prettier is nice, but I doubt intermediate devs would go to this length or find this tip and enable it, unless and this is a stretch: I would pr…

Yep, making features testable with localStorage is how we beta-test features before we’re sure we’re ready to turn them on - toggling something in localStorage isn’t our long term plan for anything :wink:

so sneaky! but I like how you utilize localStorage for notebook drafts saves, etc. :sunglasses:

Feature request: Let user customize indentation settings

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tom June 19, 2018, 7:16pm 4

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Feature request: Let user customize indentation settings

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