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A hard tab has no width. This is just how GH chooses to display it.

Not to get in a tab-vs-space war, but that's like the primary benefit of it: you can display a hard-tab however you want. A soft/spaces-tab is displayed how the author wants it.

(I use 2-space-tabs nowadays purely out of convention)




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