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Org-mode seems to put tags assigned by C-c C-q a fixed number of tab stops after the headline. However, with editing, tag addition, and increased headline length, the tag display can get really ragged and hard to read.

Is there a way to tidy tags? There are a number of ways to tidy up the tree in general but nothing turns up for fixing the tags.

A simple tag tidier would for example right-justify all the tags to the right side of the window or 2+ tab stops past the longest headline.

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    Have a look at the variable org-tags-column: gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Setting-tags.html
    – lawlist
    Jun 24, 2014 at 5:04
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    It may be blasphemy for me to say this, but I prefer using Google -- it gives hits for not only the Emacs manual, but questions and answers relating to the same or similar issues. I find the questions / answers / comments more helpful than merely reading the manual.
    – lawlist
    Jun 24, 2014 at 15:57

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As reported by lawlist in the comments, the "set tags" command C-c C-q, when prefaced by C-u, will snap all tags in the buffer to the org-tags-column. This is a start and good enough for now--changing the variable will probably do the rest.

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To answer the last part of your question, there are some hacks for always right-justifying tags. The hack detailed here (ba/org-adjust-tags-column): http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#orgheadline64 hooks into window-configuration-change-hook, before-save-hook and after-save-hook to right-justify tags in display and fix it whenever window size is changed. In saving to files tags are written with just a space between headline and tag (avoids whitespace-versioning trouble). It has worked well for me, but I don't use it now since I mostly use variable-pitch-mode for org.

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