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You still have to mess around with a bunch of spaces when you're editing or copy/pasting, and not having exact even numbers makes for ambiguous situations.

Especially if something is 5 levels deep, it's really hard to see if you have 12 or 11 spaces (so 5 levels + 1 space or 6 levels) indentation.



This is not true in a correctly configured editor.


How so?


My editor, I press tab once and it inserts the correct number of spaces (on a new line it also starts at the previous indentation level as appropriate). I press backspace once and it deletes the correct number of spaces.

Any editor used for programming needs to be capable of this.




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