Tabular.vim : how to align on the first occurrence of 2 different delimiters placed at the beginning of Words?

Question

I have installed the Tabular plugin, which works very well for me, as long as there are no complicated regexes involved…

But I have this list :

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Answer 1

Align on the first occurrence

The help file explains this problem, you can use this command:

:Tabularize /^[^@]*\zs@/l1l0

A little explaination:

• ^ means the begin of the line
• [^@]* match everything that isn't a @. The * means 0 or more times, as much as you can
• \zs put the start of the regex here (everything from this point is matched)
• @ the 'this point' in the previous sentence means the @ symbol
• /l1l0 means align the 1st block to the left and add 1 space (l1) and align the 2nd block to the left and add 0 spaces (l0)

Align 2 different delimiters

You need to do this in 2 commands. To make your life easier you can name the pattern and use that name:

:AddTabularPattern f_at /^[^@]*\zs@/l1l0
:AddTabularPattern f_and /^[^&]*\zs&/l1l0

Now you can run

:Tabularize f_at
:Tabularize f_and

Map the commands

You can even map these methods to generate easy shortcuts. Read more about this here