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A simple, easy-to-use Vim alignment plugin without too much ambition.
Features:
- Optimized for code editing
- Requires minimal keystrokes
- Extensible alignment rules
- Aligns text around either _all or n-th_ occurrence(s) of the delimiter
- Ignores delimiters in certain syntax highlighting groups (e.g. comments, strings)
- Ignores lines without a matching delimiter
Demo
----
![Screencast](https://raw.github.com/junegunn/vim-easy-align/gif/vim-easy-align.gif)
Features
--------
- Optimized for code editing
- Designed to require minimal keystrokes
- Extensible alignment rules
- Aligns text around either _all or n-th_ occurrence(s) of the delimiter
- Ignores delimiters in certain syntax highlight groups (e.g. comments, strings)
- Ignores lines without a matching delimiter
Installation
------------
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_vim-easy-align_ defines interactive `:EasyAlign` command in the visual mode.
For convenience, it is advised that you define a mapping for triggering it in your `.vimrc`.
For convenience, it is advised that you define a mapping for triggering it in
your `.vimrc`.
```vim
vnoremap <silent> <Enter> :EasyAlign<cr>
@@ -96,9 +98,9 @@ my_hash = { :a => 1,
:aaa => 3 }
```
In non-blockwise visual mode (`v` / `V`), `<Enter>=` won't work since the assignment
operator in the first line gets in the way.
So we instead enter blockwise-visual mode (`CTRL-V`), and select the text *around*
In non-blockwise visual mode (`v` / `V`), `<Enter>=` won't work since the
assignment operator in the first line gets in the way. So we instead enter
blockwise-visual mode (`CTRL-V`), and select the text *around*
`=>` operators, then press `<Enter>=`.
```ruby
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Options
-------
| Option | Type | Default | Description |
| ----------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| g:easy_align_ignores | list | ['String', 'Comment'] | Ignore delimiters in these syntax highlighting groups |
| g:easy_align_ignore_unmatched | boolean | `1` | Ignore lines without matching delimiter |
| g:easy_align_delimiters | dictionary | `{}` | Extend or override alignment rules |
| Option | Type | Default | Description |
| ----------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| g:easy_align_ignores | list | ['String', 'Comment'] | Ignore delimiters in these syntax highlight groups |
| g:easy_align_ignore_unmatched | boolean | `1` | Ignore lines without matching delimiter |
| g:easy_align_delimiters | dictionary | `{}` | Extend or override alignment rules |
### Ignoring delimiters in comments or strings
EasyAlign can be configured to ignore delimiters in certain highlight groups,
such as code comments or strings. By default, delimiters that are highlighted as
code comments or strings are ignored.
EasyAlign can be configured to ignore delimiters in certain syntax highlight
groups, such as code comments or strings. By default, delimiters that are
highlighted as code comments or strings are ignored.
```vim
" Default:
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let g:easy_align_ignores = ['Comment', 'String']
```
For example,
For example, the following paragraph
```ruby
{
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}
```
becomes
becomes as follows on `<Enter>:`:
```ruby
{
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}
```
Naturally, this only works when syntax highlighting is enabled.
Naturally, this feature only works when syntax highlighting is enabled.
You can override `g:easy_align_ignores` to change the rule.
You can change the default rule by defining `g:easy_align_ignores` array.
```vim
" Ignore nothing!
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### Ignoring unmatched lines
Lines without a matching delimiter are ignored as well (except in
Lines without any matching delimiter are ignored as well (except in
right-justification mode).
For example, when aligning the following code block around the colons,