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		sophacles on March 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy Not if you do it right: `\t\tsome_func(arg1, \t\t arg2, \t\t argN)` will look right no matter what the tab width is.

TeMPOraL on March 3, 2017 [–]

I just realised my invalid belief was caused by experiencing dumb editors in the past, which wouldn't recognise aligning and would turn your example into:

  \t\tsome_func(arg1,
  \t\t\t   arg2,
  \t\t\t   argN)

I.e. they would replace all sequences of tab-width spaces with a tab character.

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