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Reputation: 137

Formatting columns of text in vim (alignment)

Is there any short cut to quick edit this with vim beside recording action, then apply to all lines?

From:

French Polynesia  French Polynesian
Gambia The Gambian
Georgia Georgian
Ghana Ghanaian
Grenada Grenadian
Guam  Guamanian

To:

French Polynesia  French Polynesian
Gambia            The Gambian
Georgia           Georgian
Ghana             Ghanaian
Grenada           Grenadian
Guam              Guamanian

Upvotes: 0

Views: 117

Answers (1)

mattb
mattb

Reputation: 3053

If you can replace the spaces with hyphens like below (from your example, it's hard to give a method for this initial step that I'd be sure would work with other variations that you might have in your data):

French-Polynesia  French-Polynesian
Gambia The-Gambian
Georgia Georgian
Ghana Ghanaian
Grenada Grenadian
Guam  Guamanian

Then you can run %!column -t to get this:

French-Polynesia  French-Polynesian
Gambia            The-Gambian
Georgia           Georgian
Ghana             Ghanaian
Grenada           Grenadian
Guam              Guamanian

Then do %s/-/ /g to get to this:

French Polynesia  French Polynesian
Gambia            The Gambian
Georgia           Georgian
Ghana             Ghanaian
Grenada           Grenadian
Guam              Guamanian

Upvotes: 1

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