Elastic tabstop editors and plugins

Question

What win code editors allow the use of elastic tabstops, either natively or through a plugin?

I know about a gedit plugin, but the elastic tabstop plugin for gedit only works on linux.

Answer 1

I did quite a bit of googling trying to find this answer. There are plenty of people asking for it:

• http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=414610&cid=21996944
• http://www.arguingwithmyself.com/archives/75-the-biggest-feature-your-editor-is-missing
• http://intype.info/blog/screencast-parser-in-editor/#comment-221
• http://codewords.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/eclipses-achilles-heel/

just to name a few...

so I don't think one exists yet, sorry :(

Answer 2

The problem is that only a few toolkits/platforms have text widgets that offer the ability to set non-uniform tabstops on different lines. To my knowledge, those toolkits/platforms are Java Swing (used by the demo on the elastic tabstops page), GTK (used by Gedit and the Gedit plugin), and apparently the new version of Visual Studio (VS 2010).

Expect to (eventually) see more developments on all of those platforms.

Answer 3

Code Browser may be the first for windows. I would love to see this feature as a plugin for other editors as well.