Tabs and Indents
Last modified: 08 March 2021
Function or procedure call
| Item | Description | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use tab character | Use TAB characters instead of SPACE characters for indents. A TAB character appears when you press Tab. A SPACE character when you press Space. | ||||
| Smart tabs | Use combination of TAB and SPACE characters depending on the context. | ||||
| Tab size | Set the size of a single TAB character (in a number of SPACE characters). | ||||
| Indent | Set the size of an indent (in a number of SPACE characters). Indent is a position of a text relative to the margin. In our case, the margin is a gutter with line numbers. | ||||
| Continuation indent | Add a number of SPACE characters to an indent on a next line for a multiline expression. Consider the following example with zero indent and aligned strings.
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| Keep indents on empty lines | Keep indents if the line is empty. |
