[takatin]

Tabs. There's a reason we put tab key on every keyboard out there, it is built specifically for alignment

  The word tab derives from the word tabulate, which means "to arrange data in a tabular, or table, form." When a person wanted to type a table (of numbers or text) on a typewriter, there was a lot of time-consuming and repetitive use of the space bar and backspace key. — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key

[lumberjack]

>There's a reason we put tab key on every keyboard out there

To insert 4 consecutive spaces at once.

[bobisme]

Tab is great for auto-complete.

[VMG]

What the purpose of the backspace key?