Tip #319: text formatting (lining up ='s,('s etc))

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Rating -3/13, Viewed by 1419

created:		August 23, 2002 7:01		complexity:		basic
author:		Jahagirdar Vijayvithal S		as of Vim:		5.7

some time onw would like to reformat text like a=1; foo=2; longstring=1; c=2 to a =1; foo =2; longstring =1; c =2; Note I am not sure wether the code above is displayed properly in your browsers what is basically shows is all the ='s are lined up in a single column and this is how we achive it 0f=20i<space><esc>020lvf=hx and this is what it does 0 goes to first column f= finds next occurance of = on current line 20i<space><esc> inserts 20 spaces before = 0 goesback to first column 20l forward 20 column vf=hx deletes everything up to the = sign

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Additional Notes

Anonymous, August 23, 2002 7:31

Any lining up, alignment, etc..just leave it to Dr. Chip Campbell's Align.vim (search for it here)

Anonymous, August 23, 2002 12:41

This is a more lightweight solution, though. There's something to be said for that...

Alex A. Naanou <[email protected]>, August 23, 2002 16:35

Nice, but I see a BIG drawback!! what will it do in the following case?? :) Ex: ---cut--- int my_very_informative_variable_name = 0; ---uncut--- the result will be: int my_very_informat= 0; yes the simplest way out of this is to extend the thing to say... 40 spaces.... but this will make all the short variable defs look ugly! Ex: int i = 0; char * my_foo_bar = "moo"; the correct way to solve this problem is to find the longest var in the list (selected lines) and align accordingly....

Anonymous, August 23, 2002 22:14

some mappings and a python script for alignment. http://www.ophinity.com/code/wrangling/index.html#lineUp pro: humans can understand python con: you need to have a python interpreter on your box it's not as sophisticated as dr. chips script

[email protected], August 24, 2002 3:51

I know about the drawback alex mentioned( having a variable name more than 20 characters long) this was just a sample example the number of space inserted and the column at which alignment has to be done can be changed as per requirement.

Anonymous, August 25, 2002 17:53

You can save a couple keystrokes without visual mode. 0f=20i<space><esc>020ldt= And a couple more by using the goto-column movement ( :help bar ) 0f=20i<space><esc>d20| And finally, you can fire off something like :11,32norm 0f=20i<space><ctrl-v><esc>d20| to do this for a bunch of lines.

[email protected], August 26, 2002 8:00

0f=gelcw<TAB><ESC> works well of you have softtabs set to use spaces. (Or using :retab) This will align based on next tab collumns. Neat enough for me. Marius.

[email protected], August 28, 2002 15:07

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[email protected], August 29, 2002 6:42

Tip #319: text formatting (lining up ='s,('s etc)) tip karma Rating -3/3, Viewed by 491 created: August 23, 2002 7:01 complexity: basic author: Jahagirdar Vijayvithal S as of Vim: 5.7 some time onw would like to reformat text like a=1; foo=2; longstring=1; c=2 to a =1; foo =2; longstring =1; c =2; Note I am not sure wether the code above is displayed properly in your browsers what is basically shows is all the ='s are lined up in a single column and this is how we achive it 0f=20i<space><esc>020lvf=hx and this is what it does 0 goes to first column f= finds next occurance of = on current line 20i<space><esc> inserts 20 spaces before = 0 goesback to first column 20l forward 20 column vf=hx deletes everything up to the = sign rate this tip Life Changing Helpful Unfulfilling <<Extended Bracket and Parenthesis + extras for perl | Borland pageup/down behavier >> Additional Notes Anonymous, August 23, 2002 7:31 Any lining up, alignment, etc..just leave it to Dr. Chip Campbell's Align.vim (search for it here) Anonymous, August 23, 2002 12:41 This is a more lightweight solution, though. There's something to be said for that... Alex A. Naanou <[email protected]>, August 23, 2002 16:35 Nice, but I see a BIG drawback!! what will it do in the following case?? :) Ex: ---cut--- int my_very_informative_variable_name = 0; ---uncut--- the result will be: int my_very_informat= 0; yes the simplest way out of this is to extend the thing to say... 40 spaces.... but this will make all the short variable defs look ugly! Ex: int i = 0; char * my_foo_bar = "moo"; the correct way to solve this problem is to find the longest var in the list (selected lines) and align accordingly.... Anonymous, August 23, 2002 22:14 some mappings and a python script for alignment. http://www.ophinity.com/code/wrangling/index.html#lineUp pro: humans can understand python con: you need to have a python interpreter on your box it's not as sophisticated as dr. chips script [email protected], August 24, 2002 3:51 I know about the drawback alex mentioned( having a variable name more than 20 characters long) this was just a sample example the number of space inserted and the column at which alignment has to be done can be changed as per requirement. Anonymous, August 25, 2002 17:53 You can save a couple keystrokes without visual mode. 0f=20i<space><esc>020ldt= And a couple more by using the goto-column movement ( :help bar ) 0f=20i<space><esc>d20| And finally, you can fire off something like :11,32norm 0f=20i<space><ctrl-v><esc>d20| to do this for a bunch of lines. [email protected], August 26, 2002 8:00 0f=gelcw<TAB><ESC> works well of you have softtabs set to use spaces. (Or using :retab) This will align based on next tab collumns. Neat enough for me. Marius. [email protected], August 28, 2002 15:07 Metatip: Edit your tips with Vim itself (or Notepad, or another editor that edits raw text in a monospaced font). Then paste them into the textbox when you are posting your tip. That way, the odds of things lining up are much better, since the tips display in a monospaced font.

Anonymous, August 30, 2002 13:06

[email protected]: 0f=gelcw<TAB><ESC> will fail if there's no space between the previous word and the equals sign.




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