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I'm well aware of it. But I don't think I have ever seen an editor/website which would display it as 9 spaces. Github for example default to 4 spaces width.


Yes, this is very weird. But Go Playground[1] has always been using 8 spaces per tab for some reason. I always found that very jarring, particularly where almost every other editor or documentation has settled on 4 spaces per tab.

[1] https://go.dev/play/




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