Can the version that you use support this "feature"?
Indentation is widely spread over the computer classes around the world.

The MSX-BASIC is also interpreted instead of being a compiled language. Much of the newer and structured (commercial) versions of BASIC for Personal Computers are now compiled languages, even resembling something from Pascal and other languages.

If a BASIC list is saved in plain ASCII it could be edited into almost any universal Text Editor, only the tokenized files need to be converted for use into other machines ...

MSX BASIC is a non-procedural language, so indentation seems pretty useless to me. It can be done, but it'll only eat up bytes and speed.

I think it is not that useless.
You can use it as a way to "tidy up" your BASIC listing. and will make the reading much more easy.
It only takes a couple of bytes more in memory (TAB=0x09) and i think it will not affect to speed.

Compare:

10 screen 2
20 for i=0 to 255
30 vpoke 0+i,i
40 vpoke 8192+i,i
50 next

and

10 screen 2
20 for i=0 to 255
30 _____vpoke 0+i,i
40 _____vpoke 8192+i,i
50 next

BASIC interpreter will do the same, as it will ignore extra spaces or TABS...

Hey! MSX.ORG editor DO support TABs, but the post DO NOT show them, so i had to use "undescores" (by the way).

Try the [ code ] tag:

10 screen 2
20 for i=0 to 255
30     vpoke 0+i,i
40     vpoke 8192+i,i
50 next

By the way, as MSX-BASIC is an interpreter, these spaces do cost time. Better use NestorPreter, a great MSX-BASIC preprocessor. You can code in great style and the preprocessor will generate an efficient run time version. http://www.konamiman.com/msx/msx-e.html#nestorpreter

Actually it takes some more space as MSX-BASIC editor converts TABs to spaces during editing. MSX-BASIC interpreter anyway works with TABs, so you just need some external BASIC editor. (I just don't think there exists any)

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so you just need some external BASIC editor. (I just don't think there exists any)

Vi(m), Emacs, Notepad, jEdit, VisualStudio , SlickEdit, Crimson, TED, ...

Any text editor will do the trick

Ah, I didn't realize that this conversion does not happen when loading ASCII file.
Well... problem solved...