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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can't imagine it would be difficult for an IDE to scale the width of spaces found at the start of a line, to emulate this same customization while still preserving my sanity as a fervent space-indenter. I've never seen an IDE that does this, but it'd be an interesting compromise.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

What if instead of having the IDE special case space characters at the start of a line, we had a special character that could represent a variable width space?