-Original Message-
From: Tim Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:08 PM
To: David Fishburn
Cc: vim@vim.org
Subject: Re: Substitute tabs for specific column locations
So for each row, replace the tab with an appropriate number of
spaces
Vim 7
WinXP SP2
I have a string in this format:
\nr1c1\tr1c2\tr1c3\t\nr2c1\tr2c2\tr2c3\t\nr3c1\tr3c2\tr3c3\t\n
r1 = row 1
c1 = column 1
I also have this information and requirement:
c1 should display at column 1
c2 should display at column 20
c3 should display at column 25
So for each row,
So for each row, replace the tab with an appropriate number of spaces to
ensure that column 2 (no matter the length of column 1) will always start in
column 20. The same for column 3, but starting at column 25.
This is my poor man's formatting utility. I can change the input in anyway
I want
