Tabular

Vim

Common usage

Tables

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:Tab /|
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| Fruit  | Color  |
| -----  | -----  |
| Apple  | Red    |
| Banana | Yellow |
| Kiwi   | Green  |

Variables

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:Tab /=
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title = "Hello"
src   = "image.jpg"
width = 640

Colons

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:Tab /:\zs/l0l1
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title:       "Hello world"
description: "This is a description"
src:         "image.jpg"
height:      320
width:       640

Tab command

Basic example

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:Tab /:
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title : My picture
src   : img.jpg

Right align

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:Tab /:/r0
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title:My picture
  src:   img.jpg

The \zs atom

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:Tab /:\zs
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title:  My picture
src:    img.jpg

The \zs atom will exclude the : from the search match.

Specifier

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:Tab /:/r1c1l0
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title : My picture
  src : img.jpg

Explanation

  • r1 – Right align with 1 space
  • c1 – Center align the comma with 1 space
  • l0 – Left align with 0 spaces

Regexp

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:Tab /^[^,]*\zs,/r0
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abc,hello
  c,hi there
  a,yo

Specifiers

Specifier Description
r1c1l0 multiple specifiers, one per column
(the separator counts as a column)
— —
lN Left-align (with N spaces padding)
rN Right-align (with N spaces padding)
cN Center-align (with N spaces padding)

Also see