BasF0

I would appreciate a rule that checks if indentation is done with tabs, not sure if the rules discussed cover that or if I should create a separate issue.

Ah, nice! There is some gray area with indentation vs alignment though, it would be best if that could be separated from alignment. I just found some examples in https://www.norbertdejonge.nl/pdf/Code_Indentation_Tabs_Versus_Spaces.pdf...

Yeah `smart tabs` is nice because then everyone can configure their editor to display tabs as however many spaces they want. I agree that the term `soft_tab` is going to...

> Hey @staerz, > > > Things might look very different with a tab size of 8 for example. > > yes...my examples were incorrect. For the `tab` only it...

> Hey @BasF0, > > > maybe a useful rule generally is to check on every line that every tab only follows another tab > > I was wondering what...

I think both your examples are valid ones to want to align. But neither align correctly with tabs, not with a tab width of 2, 3, 4 nor 5 spaces....

Update: so removing the lines suggested only brings the error to the next "-- PSL *" comment until none of the source files in /snap/hardware/hdl/core/ have them anymore.. Found out...