"But you seem to want the variability, you don't want to be subjected to my setting of 4 spaces because you find it unreadable." No. I want consistency. If y

"But you seem to want the variability, you don't want to be subjected to my setting of 4 spaces because you find it unreadable." No. I want consistency. If you use 4 spaces and it is readable, then I don't care. But I want to see it the way that you wrote it in order to make that judgement. If I am looking at two different files that were written by 2 different people using 2 different tab width settings, I don't want change my tabwidth per file, just to read it clearly. This is especially a problem where continuation indents are used, and all readability is lost with the wrong tab setting. It is needlessly messy. Using spaces (even if they each used a different number of space indent) would ensure that I see the file as they intended it to be read. That is consistency, and that is what matters to me. If you use a different number of spaces than me, then that is entirely fine. By using spaces, then I will see your code as you see it. If you use tabs, then all bets are off.