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Auto-indentation is used in programming tools (IDEs and source code beautifiers) to automatically adjust the amount of leading white space on a line.

Auto-indentation is used in programming tools (IDEs and source code beautifiers) to automatically adjust the amount of leading white space on a line. In certain programming languages, such as Python, Haskell, and Occam, indentation is crucial for to demarcating the programming structure, and so auto-indentation plays an important role in facilitating this.