Who are the "spacists"?

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:24 AM, BartC <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> But it would be better IMO if tabs were used, with some scheme for
> suggesting the tab width (or set of tab stops) that is recommended (eg. a
> comment at the top).

If you absolutely have to, then sure, put a directive in some
machine-readable way at the top or bottom of the file. It's like the
coding cookie that Python follows - some editors also respect it. But
I would prefer to just use tabs *without* suggesting a width, because
each one represents *one indent*. Not a number of spaces. One
indentation level.

ChrisA