Vim: source code formatting

Question

Take a look at the enum:

enum TestEnum
{
    First = 1,
    Second = 2,
    Unknown = 3,
    TestTestTest = 100,
    Zero = 0,
    Foo = 123,
}

Answer 1

The Align.vim plugin is probably the way to go, but if you wish to have it handy on a standard installation, you could always filter through awk to get some generic functionality with not too much work.

For TestEnum you would do something like

'<,'>!awk '{printf "^I\%-20s\%-20s\%-20s\n", $1, $2, $3}'

after visually selecting the braced contents (viB is awesome here.)

For Foo you would do

'<,'>!awk '{printf "^I\%-20s\%-20s\n", $1, $2}'

You could probably make it variable width with an awk for-loop but at the cost of the easy and fast to type version here.

If you have the unix utility col handy, you might simply try

'<,'>!col -x

But here your mileage will really vary, as this is not the intended use of the utility.