Set your tabs stops every eight columns and the source will be
aligned properly.
I like the tabs in the source because I can move around indented
lines faster (and the file is a few bytes shorter). I also like
braces lined up like this
if (foo)
{
bar();
}
which would mean a tab width of 2 to make everything be tabbist -
which might just as well stay as spaces. (But tabs every 2 would
also make the source almost immediately run off the right hand edge
when viewed on my teletype, with its tabs hard-wired at every eighth
column, not to mention the cacophony of bell ringing that would ensue
every time it reached the margin set 10 spaces before the right-hand
edge of the paper.)
FWIW, I don't do anything special to Emacs (which I use when away
from my teletype) to get this behaviour - tabs every eight, and
compressing multiple spaces into single tab characters when possible,
is the default behaviour. Works for me, but then I still think of my
computer as a typewriter - with pretty colours and unlimited built-in
tippex.
Spaced-out people should refer to expand(1).
HTH,
Ian
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