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How do tabularize all commas after instances of EST[ so that text like
Item 1 //EST[5555m, 6666m]
Item 2 //EST[1m, 300m]
gets transformed into something like:
Item 1 //EST[5555m , 6666m]
Item 2 //EST[1m , 300m]
The best starting command I know is :Tabularize \,, but it's not quite specific enough because it tabularizes all commas and not just those proceeding EST[.
You could try installing the tabular plugin. It looks like it will take a regular expression and tabularize the contents of your file. There are examples in the documentation such as:
abc,def,ghi
a,b
a,b,c
After running :Tabularize /,/r1c1l0:
abc , def, ghi
a , b
a , b , c
and since you have an accessible expression of the comma after EST[ it looks like a good fit.
:Tabularize /.
Jun 14, 2017 at 15:53
:Tabularize /EST[.*,/ This would look for EST[any characters, I meant to add the link to the Tabularize screencast from this answer vi.stackexchange.com/questions/8105/… about using regular expressions with Tabularize.