It's been a while since I've used BBedit as I'm a fairly heavy vim user due
to working on linux machines at work but I've decided to give it a try
again for some web development I'm starting on the side.
One of the plugins for vim I loved was Align. I used it to keep assignment
statements aligned. I didn't see a way to do this in Bbedit so I threw
together a short Python script I thought I would share. Just save to
alignequals.py and save to your Text Filters folder. Highlight the section
of text with assignments and call from the text menu.
So, assuming you have this:
name = "John Doe"
age = 45
occupation = "artist"
height = 72
After highlighting and calling script from "Apply Text Filter", you get:
name = "John Doe"
age = 45
occupation = "artist"
height = 72
Here's the script (it was quick and dirty and I'm not a Python expert so
any tweaks are welcome):
#!/usr/bin/env python
# File: alignequals.py
# Description: Aligns piped in text to equals sign
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
max_chars = 0
def read_in():
global max_chars
lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
aligned = []
# First pass will calculate longest left side variable
for i in range(len(lines)):
lines[i] = lines[i].split("=")
# Clean up spaces
lines[i][0] = lines[i][0].rstrip()
lines[i][1] = lines[i][1].lstrip()
if len(lines[i][0]) > max_chars:
max_chars = len(lines[i][0])
# Second pass pads left side variable
for i in range(len(lines)):
lines[i][0] = lines[i][0].ljust( max_chars + 1 )
newline = lines[i][0] + "= " + lines[i][1]
aligned.append(newline.rstrip())
return aligned
def main():
lines = read_in()
for i in range( len( lines ) ):
print lines[i]
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Mark
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