@squirrel same - arbitrary sized tabs mean I don't know what my code looks like to other people, which means I can't make it pretty

@squirrel Aaa that was me. I was kind of expecting a goofy dismissive answer. ;)

Since you answered honestly, I might as well do same: my preference is actually "tabs, THEN spaces", i.e. tabs only on the left for indenting a block, but spaces for all alignment past the start of the line. That way variable tab size never matters.