Indent Finder Downloads

Indentation of external program sources is a common problem. Some people use 2 spaces, some tabulations, some 4 spaces, some (the horror!) mix tab and spaces.

Text editors have usually options helping to deal with the way you indent your files. Pressing tab will insert spaces of tabulations depending on your settings. However, it only works properly with your own files, which have been indented in your own way.

As soon as you start editing external sources, you are likely to face a different indentation. Then your careful editor setting will simply screw up the file you edit unless the guy did use the same indentation as yours. And you may not notice it.

For example if I indent with tab but sets them to be displayed as four columns and if I edit a file indented with 4 spaces, all the lines I create will be indented with tab. They will render fine on my editor, but probably not on someone else's editor.

It is especially annoyhing if ...