title: Alignment of characters in Notepad++
body: <p>I just wondered why my m-files from MATLAB look so different when I open them with Notepad++ instead of the built-in MATLAB Editor.</p>
  
  <p>It seems that in the MATLAB Editor each character has the same width. Not so in Notepad++ (even I change the language to "M").</p>
  
  <p>Here's a screenshot from a file opened in Notepad++ (left) and in the MATLAB Editor (right).</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/17Axv.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>In the MATLAB Editor all the characters in column X are exactly one below the other. They aren't in Notepad++.</p>
  
  <p>I just played a bit with the tab preferences, without any success.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to get the alignment of columns in Notepad++ the same as in the MATLAB Editor ...at least for m-files?</p>