On 15 Dec 2011, at 21:28, Martin Batholdy wrote:

I work with a lot of tab-separated files. Now most of the times when I open a tab-separated file, the lines are unfortunately not properly aligned.

I get something like:

xx xxxxx xxxx xxxxx

Is there a way to align this in textmate, so that I get a clean "table-like" view (without adding tabs of course)?

It sounds like you need to increase the tab size so that it is larger than the widest column, that should ensure “correct” alignment.