Who are the "spacists"?

Mon Mar 20 09:30:39 EDT 2017

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>> I bet some terminal emulators support ANSI escape sequences to set
>> the tab stops to arbitrary columns, but nobody uses that
>> type-writer-era mechanism.
>> Probably not. Most people would use the tabs(1) command instead.

>From "man tabs":

 Use "-8" to set tabs to the standard interval.
I'd argue most people never touch the standard interval.
>>> The different kinds of whitespace have different semantic meanings,
>>>> Only in your head (and Makefiles).
>> And in the Unicode specifications,

Unicode was 25 years late to the game, but please point me to the
paragraph anyway.
Marko