On 2009-08-25, Joe wrote:
> Hi vimmers,
>
> I often have a text-table, which I need to format for latex by
> separating the column values with "&"s. Doing this by hand is really
> laborious and very slow. Is there a better way to do it?
>
> I know you can use | for going to a particular column but how could I
> use this to, for example insert a column of &'s from line 5,20 at column 12?
>
> Ideally I'd like to turn:
>
> a b c d
>
> (into)
>
> a & b & c & d
Not a solution to your problem but something else you may want to
check out is Dr. Chip's Align plugin,
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=294
Once you have all the &s inserted in your table, you can select
those lines and execute
:'<,'>Align &
to vertically align all the &s.
Regards,
Gary
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