Re: Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment?

[don provan <dprovan@comcast.net>]

Anders Kaseorg <anders@kaseorg.com> writes:

> Or even this, if the indent and tab widths are different?
>         block {
>         ....block {
>         ------->block {
>         ------->....some_function(arg,
>         ------->..................arg);

Which would look like this with tab stops set to 4 characters:
         block {
         ....block {
         --->block {
         --->....some_function(arg,
         --->..................arg);

If tabs are broken in your environment (i.e., set to something other
than 8), then you're just hosed: there will always be cases were a tab
character will do the wrong thing. No worries, just tell emacs not to
use them and don't use them manually (internal tabs, for example).

-don provan