Align text into a table

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Tip: #570 - Align text into a table

Created: September 30, 2003 20:10 Complexity: basic Author: mosh--AT--cs.albany.edu Version: 6.0 Karma: 179/46 Imported from: Tip#570

What: Aligns badly formatted text into a table.

How: Select region and press <A-a>, in this case aligns the '=', you decide the centering string before pressing return

You need the perl script "align" from http://www.cs.albany.edu/~mosh/Perl/align. Inspired by Emacs align.el. Works on Windows and Unix.

Default key Mapping is:

:vmap <A-a> !perl ~/perl/align -c:= 

Example input:

" x = 1; 
" xyz = 245; 
" a=1; 

Example Output:

" x   = 1; 
" xyz = 245; 
" a   = 1; 

I know not what; but format in apparel, In gait and countenance surely like a father. -- BIONDELLO in Taming of Shrew by Shakespeare.