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177 lines
5.5 KiB
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vim-easy-align
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A simple, easy-to-use Vim alignment plugin without too much ambition.
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Demo
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[Screencast](https://vimeo.com/63506219)
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Installation
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------------
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Either [download zip file](http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4520)
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and extract in ~/.vim or use [Vundle](https://github.com/gmarik/vundle) (recommended)
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or [Pathogen](https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen).
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### With Vundle
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```vim
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Bundle 'junegunn/vim-easy-align'
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```
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Usage
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-----
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_vim-easy-align_ defines interactive `:EasyAlign` command in the visual mode.
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For convenience, it is advised that you define a mapping for triggering it in your `.vimrc`.
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```vim
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vnoremap <silent> <Enter> :EasyAlign<cr>
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```
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With the mapping, you can align selected lines with a few keystrokes.
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1. `<Enter>` key to start interactive EasyAlign command
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1. Optional Enter keys to toggle right-justification mode
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1. Optional field number (default: 1)
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- `1` Alignment around 1st delimiters
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- `2` Alignment around 2nd delimiters
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- ...
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- `*` Alignment around all delimiters (recursive)
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- `-` Alignment around the last delimiters (`-1`)
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- `-2` Alignment around the one before the last delimiters
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- ...
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1. Delimiter (`<space>`, `=`, `:`, `.`, `|`, `,`)
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Alignment rules for the following delimiters have been defined to meet the most needs.
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| Delimiter | Description/Use cases |
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| --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `<space>` | General alignment around spaces |
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| `=` | Operators containing equals sign (=, ==, !=, +=, &&=, ...) |
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| `:` | Suitable for formatting JSON or YAML |
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| `.` | Multi-line method chaining |
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| `,` | Multi-line method arguments |
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| `}` | Closing braces (Try using it with a negative field number) |
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| | | Table markdown |
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### Example command sequences
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| With visual map | Description | Equivalent command |
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| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------- |
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| `<Enter>=` | Alignment around 1st equals signs (and the likes) | `:'<,'>EasyAlign=` |
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| `<Enter>2=` | Alignment around 2nd equals signs (and the likes) | `:'<,'>EasyAlign2=` |
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| `<Enter>3=` | Alignment around 3rd equals signs (and the likes) | `:'<,'>EasyAlign3=` |
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| `<Enter>*=` | Alignment around all equals signs (and the likes) | `:'<,'>EasyAlign*=` |
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| `<Enter><Enter>=` | Right-justified alignment around 1st equals signs | `:'<,'>EasyAlignRight=` |
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| `<Enter><space>` | Alignment around 1st whitespaces | `:'<,'>EasyAlign\ ` |
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| `<Enter>2<space>` | Alignment around 2nd whitespaces | `:'<,'>EasyAlign2\ ` |
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| `<Enter>-<space>` | Alignment around the last whitespaces | `:'<,'>EasyAlign-\ ` |
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| `<Enter>:` | Alignment around 1st colon | `:'<,'>EasyAlign:` |
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| `<Enter>-}` | Alignment around the last closing braces | `:'<,'>EasyAlign-}` |
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| ... | ... | |
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### Partial alignment in blockwise-visual mode
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In blockwise-visual mode (`CTRL-V`), EasyAlign command aligns only the selected
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parts, instead of the whole lines in the range.
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Consider the following case where you want to align text around `=>` operators.
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```ruby
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my_hash = { :a => 1,
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:aa => 2,
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:aaa => 3 }
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```
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In non-blockwise visual mode (`v` / `V`), `<Enter>=` won't work since the assignment
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operator in the first line gets in the way.
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So we instead enter blockwise-visual mode (`CTRL-V`), and select the text *around*
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`=>` operators, then press `<Enter>=`.
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```ruby
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my_hash = { :a => 1,
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:aa => 2,
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:aaa => 3 }
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```
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However, in this case, we don't really need blockwise visual mode
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since the same can be easily done using the negative field number: `<Enter>-=`
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Defining custom alignment rules
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-------------------------------
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```vim
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let g:easy_align_delimiters = {
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\ '>': { 'pattern': '>>\|=>\|>' },
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\ '/': { 'pattern': '//*' },
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\ ')': {
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\ 'pattern': ')',
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\ 'margin_left': '',
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\ 'margin_right': '',
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\ 'stick_to_left': 0
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\ }
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\ }
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```
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Handling unmatched lines
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EasyAlign by default ignores lines without the matching delimiters (except in right-justification mode).
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This is to ignore interleaved comments commonly found in code.
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For example, when aligning the following code block,
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```
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{
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# Quantity of apples
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apple: 1,
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# Quantity of bananas
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bananas: 2,
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# Quantity of grapefruits
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grapefruits: 3
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}
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```
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we don't want the comment lines to affect the alignment,
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so this is usually what we want.
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```
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{
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# Quantity of apples
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apple: 1,
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# Quantity of bananas
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bananas: 2,
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# Quantity of grapefruits
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grapefruits: 3
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}
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```
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However, this default behavior is configurable.
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```vim
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let g:easy_align_ignore_unmatched = 0
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```
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Then we get,
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```
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{
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# Quantity of apples
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apple: 1,
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# Quantity of bananas
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bananas: 2,
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# Quantity of grapefruits
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grapefruits: 3
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}
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```
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Author
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------
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[Junegunn Choi](https://github.com/junegunn)
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