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by TickleSteve 3648 days ago
...and another:

Use of whitespace (vertical and horizontal) to group and associate code with related parts.

Its a trick borrowed from graphic design, but negative-space works really nicely.

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I've come to appreciate this as well and it's what has driven me to prefer spaces over tabs.
Sounds like you need to split your methods/files into smaller single-purpose chunks.
no... nothing to do with that...

This is about visually grouping related things together, not decomposition of functions.