@Alan-Kilborn said:
If you want more info about elastic tabstops see this website which is the main person that created the idea of elastic tabstops. This plugin just implements the algorithm to do it.
In most “normal” code you won’t see much of difference. In the images I’ve posted you can see some of the tabs appear longer which helps line up things like the comments. Without elastic tabstops then you’d need a different number of spaces and/or tabs so they lined up.
Another example is a tab delimited file where it makes columns appear to line up instead of manually messing with spacing if one column needs to be wider: