Re: Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment?

[Booted Cat]

Caught you again baby!

Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> As far as I can tell, Emacs is able to use either only spaces for
> indentation and alignment:
>         block {
>         ....block {
>         ........some_really_long_function_name(arg,
>         .......................................arg);
> or an "optimal" mixture of tabs and spaces for indentation and
> alignment:
>         block {
>         --->block {
>         --->--->some_really_long_function_name(arg,
>         --->--->--->--->--->--->--->--->--->...arg);
> which, of course, might not be so "optimal" to someone with a different
> tab width:
>         block {
>         ----->block {
>         ----->----->some_really_long_function_name(arg,
>         ----->----->----->----->----->----->----->----->----->...arg);
>
> You may prefer spaces or tabs for indentation, and that's fine, but you
> have to agree that using tabs for alignment in this way is broken.  What
> I really want is to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment:
>         block {
>         --->block {
>         --->--->some_really_long_function_name(arg,
>         --->--->...............................arg);
> so that the indentation characters are semantically correct, and the
> layout is independent of tab width:
>         block {
>         ----->block {
>         ----->----->some_really_long_function_name(arg,
>         ----->----->...............................arg);
> 
> Is there any way to get this behavior out of Emacs?
> 
> Anders