Re: [PATCH RFC3 09/13] send-email: Remove horrible mix of tabs and spaces

Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] writes:

Using tabs to align stuff to indentation level and spaces to align
line continuation is the only possible way to let users choose
whichever indentation depth they want while preserving the continuation
alignment.

Sure, it will look aligned with whatever width of HT ">":

	>>if (this is a looong
        >>....expression that is alighed) {
        >>>statement1;
        >>>statement2;
        >>}

but it is *only true* if your SP "." and everything else is of the same
width.

People seem to repeat that without realizing what they are saying, but I
find the assumption the argument is based on quite bogus.  Why do people
think it is only sane to assume flexible HT width but still monospaced
font whose SP, l and w are all of the same width?

You either forget about the alignment (there is no such thing---suck it
up), or use time honored HT=8 and monospace convention.

And this project uses the latter.