diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 87d05f1797..0e2c51036e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 * 1.27.0 (2016-XX-XX)
 
+ * deprecated Twig_Compiler::addIndentation()
  * fixed regression when registering two extensions having the same class name
  * deprecated Twig_LoaderInterface::getSource() (implement Twig_SourceContextLoaderInterface instead)
  * fixed the filesystem loader with relative paths
diff --git a/doc/deprecated.rst b/doc/deprecated.rst
index 6e6229984e..2879fea483 100644
--- a/doc/deprecated.rst
+++ b/doc/deprecated.rst
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ Compiler
 * As of Twig 1.26, the ``Twig_Compiler::getFilename()`` has been deprecated.
   You should not use it anyway as its values is not reliable.
 
+* As of Twig 1.27, the ``Twig_Compiler::addIndentation()`` has been deprecated.
+  Use ``Twig_Compiler::write('')`` instead.
+
 Loaders
 -------
 
diff --git a/lib/Twig/Compiler.php b/lib/Twig/Compiler.php
index a33e137464..c39fae6517 100644
--- a/lib/Twig/Compiler.php
+++ b/lib/Twig/Compiler.php
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ public function compile(Twig_NodeInterface $node, $indentation = 0)
     public function subcompile(Twig_NodeInterface $node, $raw = true)
     {
         if (false === $raw) {
-            $this->addIndentation();
+            $this->source .= str_repeat(' ', $this->indentation * 4);
         }
 
         $node->compile($this);
@@ -128,8 +128,7 @@ public function write()
     {
         $strings = func_get_args();
         foreach ($strings as $string) {
-            $this->addIndentation();
-            $this->source .= $string;
+            $this->source .= str_repeat(' ', $this->indentation * 4).$string;
         }
 
         return $this;
@@ -139,9 +138,13 @@ public function write()
      * Appends an indentation to the current PHP code after compilation.
      *
      * @return Twig_Compiler The current compiler instance
+     *
+     * @deprecated since 1.27 (to be removed in 2.0).
      */
     public function addIndentation()
     {
+        @trigger_error('The '.__METHOD__.' method is deprecated since version 1.27 and will be removed in 2.0. Use write(\'\') instead.', E_USER_DEPRECATED);
+
         $this->source .= str_repeat(' ', $this->indentation * 4);
 
         return $this;
diff --git a/lib/Twig/Node/Macro.php b/lib/Twig/Node/Macro.php
index 9280e294c7..2d5226a892 100644
--- a/lib/Twig/Node/Macro.php
+++ b/lib/Twig/Node/Macro.php
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public function compile(Twig_Compiler $compiler)
 
         foreach ($this->getNode('arguments') as $name => $default) {
             $compiler
-                ->addIndentation()
+                ->write('')
                 ->string($name)
                 ->raw(' => $__'.$name.'__')
                 ->raw(",\n")
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ public function compile(Twig_Compiler $compiler)
         }
 
         $compiler
-            ->addIndentation()
+            ->write('')
             ->string(self::VARARGS_NAME)
             ->raw(' => ')
         ;