Re: editing tab separated files

Am 2014-12-04 06:44, schrieb kamaraju kusumanchi:
> 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?


Not currently. There is a patch variable_tabstops floating around, that
makes it possible.
(In fact, It is in my repository here:
https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/var_tabstops)

Also you might want to look into my csv plugin. That allows to arrance
csv tables (also tab delimited files).

Best,
Christian

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