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snoble on Dec 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making Coffeescript’s Whitespace More Significant

Ah ha! you guys weren't arguing about whitespace in code at all. This thread is just a proxy war for the vim/emacs holy war. I should have guessed.

itmag on Dec 1, 2011 [–]

"Proxy war", lol :p

Does that mean that nano and notepad will be recruited to do the actual fighting in the jungles of Vi-ed-nam?

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