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Editor settings, tools, and setup

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Editor settings, tools, and setup

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- [Narrator] Many programming languages rely on indentation for readability, and for some languages it's part of the syntax. So the first thing I would like to do is set my text editor preferences for consistent indentation. The options are between an indentation width of usually two or four spaces, and hard tabs or soft tabs. Both tab styles may look the same, but hard tabs refer to the ASCII and coding tab character used to advance the cursor to the next stop. Soft tabs use the spaces to replicate this effect. Using different tab styles can result in inconsistencies when multiple are accessing the same files with different configurations, which makes it untidy and harder to read. EditorConfig is a useful tool for enforcing formatting styles. To use this tool, create a config file. Here is a sample. The root value refers to where the config file will be saved. Then specify which file type to apply the rules to using glob patterns. For example, this asterisks is used to match all file…

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