Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code

Elastic tabstops is a proposed alternative to the tabs-vs-spaces debate, redefining how tab characters work in text editors. Instead of placing text at fixed Nth-column positions, tabs act as cell delimiters in a table-like structure, where each column block automatically resizes to fit the widest content in vertically adjacent cells. This allows different programmers to view the same file with their preferred indentation width without misalignment, and enables proportional fonts in code editors. The concept was invented in 2006 and has been implemented in several editors including Elastic Notepad, Visual Studio, Scintilla, jEdit, Notepad++, and is used by Go's gofmt tool via the tabwriter package.