We changed our default indent from spaces to tabs and should announce this properly

[bpasero]

We seem to have changed the default from 4 spaces to 4 tabs and this will cause issues for any project that left the default settings in expecting new files to get spaces and not tabs.

I hope release notes are good enough, but I have a feeling this might backfire badly to us.

Refs: #3922

[bpasero]

One example: The typescript project uses spaces and does not configure indentation.

[alexdima]

@bpasero Any suggestions? We have usually communicated breaking changes in the release notes.

For the TypeScript project the guessing should guess spaces, does it not do so?

[bpasero]

@alexandrudima sure it does, but not for new files, so you end up polluting the workspace with partial tab partial whitespace files.

Why did we decide to change the defaults?

[alexdima]

@bpasero Are you arguing we should go back to the default insertSpaces: true ?

[alexdima]

That is fine by me

[bpasero]

@alexandrudima yes, now that I saw the TypeScript workspace I think that would be good.