[minitech]

> Over the years, I've come to believe that using a hanging indent for alignment is actually better in terms of readability as opposed to aligning at a column after the opening parenthesis, brace, or bracket. It's also easier to type as well even if the editor doesn't provide an auto-indent facility (or if it's not configured correctly for some reason) since you only have to press TAB the same number of times to correctly position each formal parameter in the function definition.

> As a side benefit, it also takes care of any alignment issues regardless of whether one uses tabs or spaces.

That’s exactly what I said.

> Another benefit of doing this is that it makes a unified diff and side-by-side diffs easier to read.

Until you rewrap and it adds noise to the diff. I recommend a combined word/line diff instead.

Concatenation also hides whitespace problems. Not a serious error, but a very common one.

  "This ends with a period." +
  "But this doesn’t start with a space."