Question

I saw the following code in the DataMapper documentation, the Serial, String.. all align together, Can I do the same thing in Vim?

class Post
  include DataMapper::Resource

  property :id,         Serial    # An auto-increment integer key
  property :title,      String    # A varchar type string, for short strings
  property :body,       Text      # A text block, for longer string data.
  property :created_at, DateTime  # A DateTime, for any date you might like.
end

Answer 1

You can try Tabularize.vim plugin. Run this command:

:Tabularize /:\w\+,\|#/

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What you need is a pattern to match the delimiters.

• :\w\+, will match :id,, :title,, …
• # will match the comment sign