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I don't think gofmt assumes any width for tabs. It, prints `\t` for indentation, and that's all.


It has the -tabwidth option, defaulting to 8. I have yet to figure out what it's used for, but presumably there is some case where it is used for alignment.


> It has the -tabwidth option, defaulting to 8

It was only used when you invoked the other option to use spaces instead of tabs. Both options are now removed. gofmt doesn't care how wide your tabstops are.




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