Tabular is a Vim script for text alignment.

Common usage

Tables

:Tab /|

| Fruit  | Color  |
| -----  | -----  |
| Apple  | Red    |
| Banana | Yellow |
| Kiwi   | Green  |

Variables

:Tab /=

title = "Hello"
src   = "image.jpg"
width = 640

Colons

:Tab /:\zs/l0l1

title:       "Hello world"
description: "This is a description"
src:         "image.jpg"
height:      320
width:       640

Tab command

Basic example

:Tab /:

title : My picture
src   : img.jpg

Right align

:Tab /:/r0

title:My picture
  src:   img.jpg

The \zs atom

:Tab /:\zs

title:  My picture
src:    img.jpg

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

Specifier

:Tab /:/r1c1l0

title : My picture
  src : img.jpg

Explanation

Regexp

:Tab /^[^,]*\zs,/r0

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