In my company the coding standards encourage the use of space to stress similarities between chunks of code

for instance we prefer something like this :
aaaabbb    =  fun("aaaabbb"   ,   100,  1000);
aaaa       =  fun("aaaa"      ,     0, 10000);
aaaacccccc =  fun("aaaacccccc", 10000,   100);

to the result after indentation with netbeans :

aaaabbb = fun("aaaabbb", 100, 1000);
aaaa = fun("aaaa", 0, 10000);
aaaacccccc = fun("aaaacccccc", 10000, 100);


Indenting some old code with netbeans  destroys some of the visual structure of the code. Whether you like to put space
anywhere or you don't , netbeans should allow the user to put "meaningful" spaces within lines of code. A check box to
enable/disable this feature in the identation tab would be great.



Thanks