Oh sorry! I completely misunderstood what DetectIndent was doing, that&#x27;s a good tip.<p>I did want to point out that there&#x27;s some sense to forcing the code to look the same on every machine though. Of course converting tabs&#x2F;spaces is automatic, but my point was that the mix of the two requires either manual editing or conforming to the width of whoever made the error. It does happen, and I&#x27;ve been on at least one project with a professor who would occasionally mix things up while in the throes of editing (and they used a tab width of 8 which made it especially irritating for others!). With spaces you at least force whitespace to mean only one thing and if you absolutely can&#x27;t stand someone&#x27;s indentation width you can still change it like you can with tabs.<p>This really is personal preference though. Spaces explicitly represent the author&#x27;s original intention including their indentation width, while tabs make it more convenient to others while conflating whitespace to mean two different things. Both are entirely reasonable though.