Here's a crazy idea I just had. What if there were multiple kinds of tab characters so that you could encode your intent more explicitly? i.e. a "one level of i

Here's a crazy idea I just had. What if there were multiple kinds of tab characters so that you could encode your intent more explicitly? i.e. a "one level of indent" tab, an "align with with the first instance of this character on preceding line" tab, "indent to one more level than previous" tab, "indent to one less level than previous" tabl, etc.