This sounds good and might work for programmers who are working in well-established languages with mature tooling.

For me, I’m opening so many kinds of text files, I’d need a parade of parsers and pretty-printers to pull it off. I can’t see it being a realistic option in the near term.

I have tried this but the formater in Eclipse messes up too many edgecases or nicely column aligned struct definitions to make it work for me.