Most sane editors automatically switch to tabs when editing makefiles. Anyway, my point was, not everything needs to be customizable to your liking. Sometimes

Most sane editors automatically switch to tabs when editing makefiles. Anyway, my point was, not everything needs to be customizable to your liking. Sometimes things have a set of simple rules you just have to follow. I for one like that we are limited to tabs, otherwise we would have problems with different number of spaces in the same file and by the way exactly how many spaces are a tab? I like 4 but maybe you like 8 or, god forbidden, 2?