Pipegrid Lite by PN Scripts

A free Visual Studio Code extension that aligns Markdown tables. Widths are measured in display columns, so Chinese, Japanese and Korean text, fullwidth forms and emoji do not throw the pipes off.

A Markdown table with Japanese text and emoji before and after Format Table

Commands

Command (Command Palette, category "Pipegrid Lite")	What it does
Format Table	Aligns the table under the cursor (also in the right-click menu).
Format All Tables in Document	Aligns every table in the file; fenced code blocks are skipped.
Create Table...	Asks for a size such as 3x4 and inserts an empty, aligned table.

Setting: pipegridLite.formatOnSave (off by default) formats every table in a Markdown file when it is saved.

How tables are read and written

Display width. CJK ideographs, kana, Hangul, fullwidth Latin and emoji count as two columns; combining marks and zero-width characters as zero. Emoji sequences (skin tones, flags, joined families) count as one unit.
GitHub Flavored Markdown rules. Only \| escapes a pipe inside a cell. Leading and trailing pipes are optional on input and always written on output. Alignment markers (:---, :---:, ---:) are kept.
Nothing is lost. Short rows are padded, long rows keep their extra cells, indentation (for example inside a list) is kept, CRLF stays CRLF.

Lite is complete for formatting and never asks for payment. The full edition, Pipegrid, adds Tab navigation between cells, CSV/TSV conversion, sorting, row and column editing, alignment and transposing: https://pnscripts.com/marketplace/pipegrid.

Develop

npm test           # table engine and extension tests against a fake VS Code API
npm run package    # dist/pipegrid-lite-1.0.0.vsix (uses @vscode/vsce)
npm run images     # icon and listing images at exact sizes

No runtime dependencies and no network access.

Pipegrid Lite by PN Scripts

PN Scripts

Pipegrid Lite by PN Scripts

Commands

How tables are read and written

Develop

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