Or you could use regular tab stop characters to align parts of adjacent lines. That's the idea behind elastic tabstops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstop

Or you could use regular tab stop characters to align parts of adjacent lines. That's the idea behind elastic tabstops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ Not all editors, however, support this style of alignment, even if they support plugins (looks at vim and its forks).