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		hiccuphippo 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I just chose words carefully” Code editors should do this visually without adding actual space characters to the file.
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nasso_dev 11 days ago [–]

why not go even further?

store the source minified without any extraneous whitespace and let the editor display a properly indented view in your preferred style...

hiccuphippo 11 days ago | [–]

An AST-based code editor. That would be neat.

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