Bug description

In the documentation for the indent string option the code

# String used as indentation unit. This is usually "  " (4 spaces) or "\t" (1
# tab).
indent-string="    "  

Is rendered incorrectly due to markdown or html folding multiple whitespaces into one i.e. (the " " into " "). As such the documentation currently appears as:

This can create a bit of confusion when attempting to change this option, as seen in https://stackoverflow.com/q/54117674/7052741

Configuration

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Command used

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Pylint output

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Expected behavior

Something along the lines of:

--indent-string

String used as indentation unit. This is usually "     " (4 spaces) or "\t" (1 tab).
Default: "    "

Pylint version

Appears on the newest version of Pylint taken from GitHub

OS / Environment

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Additional dependencies

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