# Editors

:::{todo}
Adopt elastic tabstop implementations from the following sites:
* <https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops>
* <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28652/elastic-tabstop-editors-and-plugins>
* <https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206330979-Elastic-tabstops>
* <https://github.com/hax/atom-elastic-tabstops>
:::

## Mainline support

* [Elastic Notepad](https://github.com/nickgravgaard/ElasticNotepad)

## Plugins

* Visual Studio Code
  * [Elastic Tabstops Lite Redux](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gerold-meisinger.elastic-tabstops-lite-redux) (from the author of this doc)
  * [Elastic Tabstops Lite](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=isral.elastic-tabstops-lite)
  * [Elastic Tabstops Mono](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=isral.elastic-tabstops-mono)
* Notepad++
  * [ColumnsPlusPlus](https://github.com/Coises/ColumnsPlusPlus)
  * [Elastic Tabstops (mariusv)](https://github.com/mariusv-github/ElasticTabstops)
  * [Elastic Tabstops (dail8859)](https://github.com/dail8859/ElasticTabstops)
   	* [broken as of 2022-04-21 (last checked Apr 2023)](https://github.com/dail8859/ElasticTabstops/issues/31#issuecomment-1242974880)
   	* [fixed 2022-09-11](https://github.com/dail8859/ElasticTabstops/issues/31#issuecomment-1242974880)
* Visual Studio
  * [Always Aligned](https://github.com/nickgravgaard/AlwaysAlignedVS)
    * [only works for Visual Studio 2017 (last checked Apr 2023)](https://github.com/nickgravgaard/AlwaysAlignedVS/issues/16) => [download Visual Studio 2017 Community](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=15)
* Scintilla
  * [Elastic Tabstops](https://github.com/nickgravgaard/ElasticTabstopsForScintilla)
* Atom/Pulsar
	* [Elastic tabstops](https://web.pulsar-edit.dev/packages/elastic-tabstops)

## Feature requests

* [Visual Studio Code - Support Elastic Tabstops](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3932)
	* [Monaco - Add support for elastic tabstops](https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/issues/1973)
	* [Virtual space is not implemented](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960)
	* [Tab characters are the wrong width with proportional fonts](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/108755)
	* [Size of units in the letterspacing property of a tab character are erroneously scaled up](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/115307#issuecomment-769783361)
* [Jetbrains - Support elastic tabstops](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-5748)
	* [discussion 1](https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206381789-elastic-tabstops)
	* [discussion 2](https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206330979-Elastic-tabstops)
	* [discussion 3](https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360010219720-How-can-I-set-widths-of-individual-tab-characters-with-a-plugin-)
* [Zed](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4961)
* [Kate](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130229)
* [Lapce](https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2373)
* [Neovim](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1419)
* [Helix (closed)](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/730)

## Libraries

* Python
  * [elastic-tabstops-py](https://github.com/nick-gravgaard/elastic-tabstops-py)
* Javascript
  * [etab](https://github.com/hax/etab)
* Rust
  * [tabwriter](https://github.com/BurntSushi/tabwriter)

## Related plugins

* Visual Studio Code
  * [TSV](https://github.com/chtenb/vscode-tsv)
  * [Smart Column Indentor](https://github.com/lmcarreiro/smart-column-indenter)
* Jetbrains
  * [Smart Align](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13903-smart-align): vertically aligns code by `=`, `:` or `,` characters
* Emacs
  * [Smart Tabs](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs)
* ACE
  * [Elastic Tabstops Lite Extension](https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/master/src/ext/elastic_tabstops_lite.js)

## Proportional Fonts for Programming

* [Input](http://input.fontbureau.com/info/)
* [Iosevka Aile Code](https://github.com/VulumeCode/Iosevka-Aile-Code)
* [Monaspace](https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace)