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

Plugins

• Visual Studio Code

  • Elastic Tabstops Lite Redux (from the author of this doc)

  • Elastic Tabstops Lite

  • Elastic Tabstops Mono

• Notepad++

  • ColumnsPlusPlus

  • Elastic Tabstops (mariusv)

  • Elastic Tabstops (dail8859)

    • broken as of 2022-04-21 (last checked Apr 2023)

    • fixed 2022-09-11

• Visual Studio

  • Always Aligned

    • only works for Visual Studio 2017 (last checked Apr 2023) => download Visual Studio 2017 Community

• Scintilla

  • Elastic Tabstops

• Atom/Pulsar

  • Elastic tabstops

Feature requests

• Visual Studio Code - Support Elastic Tabstops

  • Monaco - Add support for elastic tabstops

  • Virtual space is not implemented

  • Tab characters are the wrong width with proportional fonts

  • Size of units in the letterspacing property of a tab character are erroneously scaled up

• Jetbrains - Support elastic tabstops

  • discussion 1

  • discussion 2

  • discussion 3

• Zed

• Kate

• Lapce

• Neovim

• Helix (closed)

Libraries

• Python

  • elastic-tabstops-py

• Javascript

  • etab

• Rust

  • tabwriter

Related plugins

• Visual Studio Code

  • TSV

  • Smart Column Indentor

• Jetbrains

  • Smart Align: vertically aligns code by =, : or , characters

• Emacs

  • Smart Tabs

• ACE

  • Elastic Tabstops Lite Extension

Proportional Fonts for Programming

• Input

• Iosevka Aile Code

• Monaspace