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What does this even mean? A tab is a tab.
Tab's don't have multiple lengths inside a file, they all have the same length.
That's the point of tabs.
The horizontal tabulation character moves the cursor to the next column which is a multiple of the tabulation length. See the examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key
At least for me, it renders like this:
Clearly the whitespace produced by each tab character has a different length.
Yes
No, each tab has the same size, the text rendered over the top of the tabs are not the same size.
Always remember the golden rule: Tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment.