Editing Tab stop (section)

== Dynamic tab stops ==
In contrast to fixed positioning, tab stops can be adjusted dynamically, based on the length of adjacent tab-delimited line segments, by alignment to a specific character or string in each line, etc. [[Adobe InDesign]] supports a non-printing "[[Indentation (typesetting)|indent]] to here" character.

In 2006, Nick Gravgaard published an algorithm for automatic dynamic tab stops called "Elastic tabstops".<ref name="elastic">{{Cite web |url=https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ |title=Elastic tabstops |access-date=2023-09-27 |archive-date=2024-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921164344/https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ |url-status=live }}</ref> This can be useful for viewing/editing source code and is naturally essential for tabular data.<ref name="Code browser">{{Cite web |url=https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/elastic-tabstops.html |title=Code Browser - Elastic Tabstops |access-date=2022-04-21 |archive-date=2024-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921164346/https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/elastic-tabstops.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Various text editors and IDEs have implemented the elastic tabstops algorithm either directly or by extension.

=== Software which supports elastic tabstops ===
* [[Visual Studio]]<ref name="alwaysaligned">[https://www.alwaysaligned.net Always Aligned] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005141155/http://www.alwaysaligned.net/ |date=2017-10-05 }}</ref><ref name="alwaysaligned_repo">{{Cite web |url=https://github.com/nick-gravgaard/AlwaysAlignedVS |title=Always Aligned repository |website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=2023-09-27 |archive-date=2024-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921164446/https://github.com/nick-gravgaard/AlwaysAlignedVS |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Atom (text editor)|Atom]]<ref name="elastic_tabstops_package_for_atom">[https://atom.io/packages/elastic-tabstops Elastic Tabstops package for Atom]</ref>
* [[Textadept]]<ref name="Textadept">[https://github.com/joshuakraemer/textadept-elastic-tabstops Elastic Tabstops for Textadept]</ref>
* [[Code Browser]]<ref name="Code browser"/>
* [[JEdit]]<ref name="JEdit">{{Cite web |url=http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/indent.html#elastic-tabstops |title=JEdit - Elastic Tabstops |access-date=2022-04-21 |archive-date=2022-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220075324/http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/indent.html#elastic-tabstops |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Notepad++]]<ref name="elastic_tabstops_plugin_for_notepadplusplus">{{Cite web |url=https://github.com/dail8859/ElasticTabstops |title=Elastic Tabstops plugin for Notepad++ |website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=2021-04-15 |archive-date=2020-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224070223/https://github.com/dail8859/ElasticTabstops |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Go (programming language)|Go]] tabwriter package<ref name="tabwriter">[[Go (programming language)]] [http://golang.org/pkg/tabwriter/ tabwriter package] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240921164519/https://pkg.go.dev/text/tabwriter |date=2024-09-21 }}</ref>
* [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]] tabwriter crate<ref name="tabwriter1">{{Cite web |url=https://crates.io/crates/tabwriter |title=Elastic tabs for Rust |access-date=2024-08-21 |archive-date=2024-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240821224355/https://crates.io/crates/tabwriter |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[GNU Emacs|Emacs]]<ref name="Indentation">{{Cite web |url=https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Indentation.html |title=Emacs Manual - Indentation |access-date=2023-09-27 |archive-date=2023-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927012238/https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Indentation.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/#current-implementations list of current implementations] on Nick Gravgaard'r webiste