>>>>> On Sun, 05 May 2024, Paul Zander wrote:

> indent_size is the width in spaces, we use tabs.
> tab_width would be the tab width in spaces, but there is no reason to
> force this.

The Devmanual says that "each tab represents four spaces" [1,2], and
ebuild-mode implements it so [3]. Maybe it would be good to stay
consistent for different editors?

[1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/quickstart/index.html#basic-format
[2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting-and-whitespace
[3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/ebuild-mode.git/tree/ebuild-mode.el#n416