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    > Should Emacs try to align the indentation as it comes in?

    Looks that way, :-(

This means Emacs has to be able to distinguish all the columns.
That may be difficult for the user and group if they contain
spaces.  I guess we have to simply abandon that case.

Can someone work on this?