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You did not, but he also picked an example that could be conflated with the 4-spaces issue.
They're talking about situations where you might want to align text by a number of spaces that isn't divisible by your tab size. I'll expand on their example:
Again, dots are "visible spaces" in this example, and being used to align chained methods with the length of the object name.
Edit: Bear with me while I sort out the difference between my display and the resulting code block. Ok, close enough.
Ok, thanks. I would instead (and prefer to ) do something like this:
In this case, the ">" are showing the tab stops and the "-" the resulting white space. Note how all the calls are lined up. (My preferred alignment style, not necessarily anyone else's.)
Yet another edit: I see that I missed addressing alignment on other than tab boundaries. To me, that's just sinful! ๐