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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The correct answer is, was and always has been elastic tabstops

[–] pohart@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Any ides have support for this? I feel like I've been waiting forever.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Essentially no. I wish so badly that this had taken off.

Edit: as noted on the website, various plug-ins that attempt support are in fact not correct.

[–] thedevisinthedetails@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean? There's a ton of working plugins listed on the website for many editors.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, my phrasing was sloppy. Most popular IDEs and editors do not have a plug-in or setting that implements elastic tabstops correctly. In particular, there's no implementation for vim, emacs, VSCode, eclipse, or any JetBrains IDEs. (I had forgotten that there's one for Visual Studio and one for Notepad++.)

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