Consider the following file rajulocal@hogwarts:~/x$ sed 's/\t/,/g' data.txt ___ Maria (coffee liquer),Tia,Tia Maria is a coffee liqueur made originally in Jamaica using Jamaican coffee beans.,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tia_maria Mississippi port,Natchez,A city located on the Mississippi river in Mississippi,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez,_Mississippi
This file has two rows each containing 4 fields. The fields are tab delimited. But since gmail does not allow to display tab characters, I converted them to ',' for illustration purposes. Also, I am using two lines for illustrating purposes. But the actual file is pretty big. One characteristic of this file is that field 3 usually occupies way more characters than fields 1, 2 and 4. Now when I view the file in vim, I can set :tabstop, :shiftwidth to a very large number so as to line up the fields. But this in turn makes file very "wide". Is it possible to set different field widths for different columns of the file? For example, here I'd like to have 25 chars width for fields 1,2 and fields 3,4 to occupy 50 chars and wrap the remaining text within that cell. Is that doable in vim or should I use a spreadsheet program (ex:- oocalc) instead? raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
