Difference between spaces, tabs, and list elements?

[Circus5167]

What’s the difference between using indentation with tabs, spaces, and list elements?

I mean, obviously, the underlying Markdown is different. In terms of Obsidian, is there any difference?

• Similar - All three enable “folding”
• Different - Tabs and list elements show vertical lines (not sure what purpose these serve - maybe to show what will be “folded”? (If that’s the case, why aren’t these lines shown on the foldable “spaces” indentation?))
• Different - Tabs and list elements can have their indentation modified (decrease with Cmd [ and increase with Cmd ])
• What other differences are there?
• Is there markup that only works in, say, list element mode?
• Is there other Obsidian-specific functionality that I’m missing out on by using, say, “space indentation” as opposed to list elements?

Thanks!

[Circus5167]

Btw, the one huge difference that I’ve found is that using list elements is far superior to spaced/tabbed indentation for distinguishing between new lines and lines that are simply soft wrapping.

(New lines have a bullet, while soft-wrapped lines do not. This distinction isn’t present when using spaced or tabbed indentation)

[Circus5167]

Another difference: if you use empty/blank lines, the tabbed approach makes the line after the blank line be interpreted as a code block

Example: