This is a good list, but I have to disagree on the tab thing.
> And you will never again pull your hair out because some editor swapped a tab for four spaces
How many editors out there in 2019 will automatically replace tabs with spaces by default? Unless you're editing makefiles in Microsoft Word or something, I don't see why a working code editor will do something you didn't tell it to do.
Vim, Emacs, Nano, Sublime Text, Kate/Kdevelop, Visual Studio/Code, Atom, Brackets, Text Mate, Scintilla/SciTE/Geany/etc, Programmers Notepad, CodeBlocks, Eclipse, and JetBrains all know not to mess with your tabs.
Rather than switch away from tabs so you can keep using a broken editor, the correct solution is to switch an editor that works. And if you configured your editor to replace tabs with spaces, and it doesn't give you an option to handle Makefiles differently, then that's a broken editor.
I'd add: knows not to mess with your tabs in makefiles.
I generally use expandtabs in vim - but I still don't break makefiles. I suspect it's quite possible to force vim to expand tabs in makefiles.. But why would I want to?
> And you will never again pull your hair out because some editor swapped a tab for four spaces
How many editors out there in 2019 will automatically replace tabs with spaces by default? Unless you're editing makefiles in Microsoft Word or something, I don't see why a working code editor will do something you didn't tell it to do.
Vim, Emacs, Nano, Sublime Text, Kate/Kdevelop, Visual Studio/Code, Atom, Brackets, Text Mate, Scintilla/SciTE/Geany/etc, Programmers Notepad, CodeBlocks, Eclipse, and JetBrains all know not to mess with your tabs.
Rather than switch away from tabs so you can keep using a broken editor, the correct solution is to switch an editor that works. And if you configured your editor to replace tabs with spaces, and it doesn't give you an option to handle Makefiles differently, then that's a broken editor.