Question

I’m trying to align the following text in vim using tabularize:

typedef struct {
    int a;
    int *pa;
    float b;
    float *pb;
    double c;
    double *pc;
} foo_t;

to this:

typedef struct {
    int    a;
    int    *pa;
    float  b;
    float  *pb;
    double c;    /* notice there's only one space between 'double' and 'c' */
    double *pc;
} foo_t;

I tried using :'<,'>Tab/.*\s but it leaves two spaces between double and c. How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can use this command:

:'<,'>Tabularize /\S\+;$/l1

• /\S\+;$/ pattern: make a;,*pa;…*pc; as column separators.
• l1 flag: make every column left alignment and one space after it. (Not required here, because it’s a default behavior)