Align text on an equals sign in vim

Question

I tend to align code on equal signs for better readability. From this:

$ = jQuery.sub()
Survey = App.Survey
Sidebar = App.Sidebar
Main = App.Main
         


        

Answer 1

Install tabularize plugin and modify gist by tpope to something like this :

inoremap  :   ::call align(':')a
inoremap  =   =:call align('=')a

function! s:align(aa)
  let p = '^.*\s'.a:aa.'\s.*$'
  if exists(':Tabularize') && (getline(line('.')-1) =~# p || getline(line('.')+1) =~# p)
    let column = strlen(substitute(getline('.')[0:col('.')],'[^'.a:aa.']','','g'))
    let position = strlen(matchstr(getline('.')[0:col('.')],'.*'.a:aa.':\s*\zs.*'))
    exec 'Tabularize/'.a:aa.'/l1'
    normal! 0
    call search(repeat('[^'.a:aa.']*'.a:aa,column).'\s\{-\}'.repeat('.',position),'ce',line('.'))
  endif
endfunction