Tabs and Spaces - Smarter Indentation

Replit has released new indentation and whitespace-related features that help developers focus on coding without worrying about indentation.

Key updates include the following:

• Automatic indentation detection: When opening a file, it automatically detects that file's indentation style. Additionally, indentation size can be set to any value between 1 and 16, supporting non-standard indentation as well.
• Indentation toolbar: An element showing the current indentation settings has been added to the editor status bar. This makes it easy to change the indentation unit, check detected indentation, convert units, and re-indent the entire file.
• Smart pasting: Analyzes the indentation of copied code and the indentation at the paste location to automatically align them. It works without a separate linter or formatter, and preserves the relative indentation structure of the copied code as is.
• Whitespace display feature: A setting has been added to visualize whitespace in the editor. Users can customize it to display only the types of whitespace they want, such as trailing whitespace.