Column formatting in vim
On a linux box, say you have text like this:
name age occupation
bob 22 programmer
nathaniel 111 painter
jo 14 studentVisually select the lines in vim and type !column -t
You should now see:
name age occupation
bob 22 programmer
nathaniel 111 painter
jo 14 studentWritten by Matthew Boehm
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I prefer using Tabular gem.
over 1 year ago
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Although I use tabular for this kind of things, it is a nice use of shell features from vim. Thanks :)
over 1 year ago
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Tabular's awesome if you plan on doing this a lot, but I figured this was a good example of using bash filters, and may come in handy if you don't have tabular installed on whatever box you're on.
over 1 year ago
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if you have variable assignments like foo=bar you can also align those by simply using
:'<,'>s/=/ = /
before the !column -t
call
over 1 year ago
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