On 2017-04-05, Jim Diamond  wrote:

> You can set up emacs so that the tab key puts in the right amount of
> indentation for the current line.  With tab chars being 8 spaces wide,
> it can either be told to use only spaces for indentation or it can be
> told to use the appropriate number of (8-wide) tabs followed by (e.g.)
> 4 spaces.

So it _can_ be done.  I'll have to take another look at it in my
copious free time.  (Hah!)

One solution I find unacceptable is to use one tab character per level;
if you tell your editor of choice that a tab is 4 characters, your code
might look great in that editor, but it'll still look like hell everywhere
else.

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