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by brianzelip 1323 days ago
> The solution is to use tabs for indentation, and spaces for alignment.

It's the second step that drives me nuts. Why can't/doesn't alignment happen at first step? The inconsistencies of alignment using true tabs, in a monospace plain text environment, grosses me out and decrements my faith in the underlying systems. I appreciate editors w/ settings like `insert spaces when pressing tab` and `the number of spaces a tab is equal to`.