Hello Benji, thank you for your suggestion. The script of Dr.C is seems to be a very powerful tool for various align-tasks. I tested it for half an hour and I'm really enlighted.
For those who are interested, I'll give a short report on what I tried with my sample file (see below) It is possible to align blocks relatively to a separator (it would be the "-") so the "-" appears in every line at the same position. I do not know wether you can tell the script the absolute position of a seperator, but this is not substantial for me since you can move text blockwise. The seperator can also be a reg. expression: E.g. I tried to have a "[0-9]" as a seperator - that aligned a selected block relatively to the numbers in each line (in the example, 0 or 1 or 0.5 [playing chess 8-)] ). Thanks Dr. C. for this script! best regards, Dan > I have not tried it myself, but I think that Dr. C's Align.vim > plugin is designed for just this sort of task: > > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=294 > > HTH --Benji Fisher > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:19:46PM +0200, Popovic Dan wrote: > > Hello dear list-members, > > > > I have a question on replacing text. I have a simple text-file with a table > > of results like this: > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mosbach - KSF 2 2 : 6 > > > > Zimmer - Pfrommer 0 > > Mueller - Kargoll 1 > > Schwab - Fecht 0 > > Mattern - Arlt 0 > > Huth - Mueller 0 > > Alm - Kiefhaber,H. 0.5 > > Rastert - Vinke 0 > > Schnirch - Kiefhaber,V. 0.5 > > > > I would like to have the file formatted, e.g. first to have all the "-" in > > one column (for example at position 15), like this: > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mosbach - KSF 2 2 : 6 > > > > Zimmer - Pfrommer 0 > > Mueller - Kargoll 1 > > Schwab - Fecht 0 > > Mattern - Arlt 0 > > Huth - Mueller 0 > > Alm - Kiefhaber,H. 0.5 > > Rastert - Vinke 0 > > Schnirch - Kiefhaber,V. 0.5 > > > > I played with some search & replace commands, for example: > > > > :%s/^\([A-Z][a-z]* \)/\1 / > > > > But I do not know how to tell VIM that it should fill the room with > > whitespaces till position 15 (like above). > > I'm convinced this is possible but I do not know how, since I just began to > > learn the powerful regex-functionality.... > -- Dan Popovic Klausenpfad 22; 69121 Heidelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tel. 06221/7282102 oder 01743036428 http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~dpopovi2/index.html _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192
