Feature Request: Option to use tabs instead of spaces when aligning property value pairs

[kborowinski]

Is it possible to add option to align property value pairs with tabs instead of spaces?

  // Align assignment statements in a hashtable or a DSC Configuration.
  "powershell.codeFormatting.alignPropertyValuePairs": true,

Currently when formatting hashtable the tabs are replaced with spaces:

Would love to have the option to use tabs for alignment instead:

[rkeithhill]

I don't think this needs a new PowerShell setting. The code should honor the current editor.insertSpaces and editor.tabSize settings

[kborowinski]

I agree, but then it looks like the code does not honor the editor.insertSpaces setting when aligning property value pairs. I've set editor.insertSpaces to false and the property value pairs are still aligned with spaces. Is it bug then @rkeithhill ?

[rjmholt]

Given

PSScriptAnalyzer/Rules/AlignAssignmentStatement.cs

Line 34 in 128a9a2

private readonly char whitespaceChar = ' ';

it looks like this rule needs to allow for configuration of the whitespace character it uses and adjust its alignment count appropriately

[bergmeister]

Yes, see #1055

[rjmholt]

Deduplicating to #1055