On Feb 23, 2016, at 08:39, Adam Wise <a...@adamwi.se <mailto:a...@adamwi.se>>
wrote:
> I'm editing a lot of delimited files in BBEdit & was hoping there was a way
> to space out columns & align them so they look more like an excel sheet...
______________________________________________________________________
Hey Adam,
As Bucky mentions BBEdit does not have variable tab widths.
However you can set the width of fixed tabs on a per document basis with
AppleScript.
tell application "BBEdit"
tell front text window
set tab width to 10
end tell
end tell
I do quit a lot of work with delimited data, and I often want to see it in
tabular format.
To do that I usually run a Text Filter.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
column -t -s',';
* The comma in this case is the delimiter.
Your original text:
Name, City, Zip
John Doe, Washington, 20005
Expands to this:
Name City Zip
John Doe Washington 20005
The spacing between columns will be a minimum of 2 spaces but will expand as
necessary to align the columns.
See “man column” in the Terminal.app for an explanation of the parameters.
Text filters are installed here:
~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/
(Create the folder if it does not already exist.)
See “Text filters” in the BBEdit User Manual for more information.
--
Best Regards,
Chris
--
This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a
feature request or would like to report a problem, please email
"supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group.
Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"BBEdit Talk" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
