Indent with tabs, align with spaces. Alignment never follows any "N number of spaces" style guide, since by definition its to align with something else.
since we were talking about indention, not alignment, I don't see how anything changes. If I want my indent to be 3 spaces and you want 8, we can set our tab width and arg3 will still be aligned correctly for both of us.
Or you live with misaligned arguments (its a bit of a smell imho to have so many arguments that you need to split them over many lines, although it for sure does happen) and just use tabs for both.
My main point is that with tab, each individual has some control over their preferences, even if not perfect for alignment, while with spaces everyone has to live with the standard and nobody has control over their preference. That is, tabs is "mostly people get what they want", spaces is "nobody gets what they want unless they happen to want the style guide imposed on them". The former seems a lot better to me!
So in this case:
since we were talking about indention, not alignment, I don't see how anything changes. If I want my indent to be 3 spaces and you want 8, we can set our tab width and arg3 will still be aligned correctly for both of us.Or you live with misaligned arguments (its a bit of a smell imho to have so many arguments that you need to split them over many lines, although it for sure does happen) and just use tabs for both.
My main point is that with tab, each individual has some control over their preferences, even if not perfect for alignment, while with spaces everyone has to live with the standard and nobody has control over their preference. That is, tabs is "mostly people get what they want", spaces is "nobody gets what they want unless they happen to want the style guide imposed on them". The former seems a lot better to me!