Re: Minimum tabstop to get all columns aligned

To get all columns aligned, you must of course know the width of the
widest column. If that can be known from the first line, it should be
possible to set 'tabstop' accordingly, depending on that first line's
format (in particular, is it a comma-separated list of column widths,
or a "format line" with a | bar representing a tab stop and repeated -
dashes between tab stops? I've seen both kinds).

See, among others,
:help eval.txt
:help substitute()
:help virtcol()
:help max()
:help :execute

See also the vartabs plugin, http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=785

Best regards,
Tony.

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Paolo Bolzoni
<paolo.bolzoni.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Lately I often works with cvs-like files where columns are
> separed by tabs and the first line contains the columns
> description.
>
> To move around those files I setup "nowrap" and "set tabstop=40"
> (title can be long) and it works fairly well.
>
> However, I was wondering is there a way to setup tabstop to the
> minimum to get all the columns aligned?
>
> Yours faithfully,
> Paolo
>
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