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I would like to, but I hate tabs (due to the jumps it causes in horizontal cursor navigation, and also due to the nonlinear behavior when inserting/deleting characters preceding a tab in a line), so I would need an editor that widens spaces at the start of line to get sufficient visual indentation at four spaces.



Interesting. I find that the usual four spaces give me the ideal indent length in proportional fonts.


in Verdana 4 space indentation is about 3 ordinary characters wide. I find that perfect. code indented with 2 spaces is more problematic though.




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