Question

I have to enter in the following format…

A          B          C
D          E          F
[]

I use indent-relative to jump from one column to another.
But is there a way to jump to column number? And if so, is there a way to insert spaces until that column?

Answer 1

Maybe indent-to-column would work for you.

indent-to-column is an alias for `indent-to'.

(indent-to-column COLUMN &optional MINIMUM)

Indent from point with tabs and spaces until COLUMN is reached.
Optional second argument MINIMUM says always do at least MINIMUM spaces
even if that goes past COLUMN; by default, MINIMUM is zero.

The return value is COLUMN.

It enters tabs too, but you can clean those up when you’re done with the untabify command.