You can just ask it to use your preferred indentation style. Personally I prefer 2 spaces so even if 4 spaces is apparently “standard” I’d like it to use 2
I was kinda on the fence, but I was considering my target: Journalists. A journalist may not notice simple differences like an extra space here or there when reading, but probably wouldn't retype a double space. I agree that this should be automated in some way, but it's a bit of an arms race.
Why would you need to change the number of spaces to read it? You probably have a different preference and what you get, but your preference is unlikely to be material to legibility.
Most people have settled with somewhere between 2-4 spaces, and a max of 80-120 character lines. I have an opinion on what I prefer in that range, but I'll live with a variety of stuff. And most others can as well.
I don't think 4 spaces makes it easier to know in what scope I'm in when there are a lot of scopes. The amount of white space is a bit overwhelming to me.
But you know, it's no big deal, just a matter of taste. Maybe 3 spaces is a better answer, which I guess we'll never know...
This is one of the reasons I've never liked (and never used) Spaces. I think this would be a better solution, even if it meant making the max number of spaces be four.
We could use [space], option+[space], and option+shift+[space] to give a regular space, an en space, and an em space respectively. This would be similar to hyphen-minus/en-dash/em-dash, so easy to remember. And it could be done in software.
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