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align-text

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Two commands for aligning text
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Align text extension for Visual Studio Code

This VS Code extension allows you to align lines based on a user-provided regular expression. We pad with white space either on the left or right of a regular expression, depending whether you want to align columns or on a word.

Align columns

Open the Command palette and run Align Text: Align columns

When run:

  • Default value is 'csv' which will use a preset regular expression to align unquoted commas.
  • Other than 'csv', anything you type in the input box will be interpreted as regex.
  • Lines are split on the right of this pattern, which are then padded with spaces to be the same length.
  • If there are multiple matches on a line, we pad each to the max length of its respective column.

Align on word

Open the Command palette and run Align Text: Align on word

When run:

  • Default value to align on is '='. To find matches, user input is interpreted as regex and will be sandwiched with a non-word character i.e. \W{$user_input}\W.
  • Lines are split on the left of this pattern, which are then padded with spaces to be the same length.
  • Only the first match on each line is padded appropriately.
  • Two presets are available:
    • For SQL data types, entering any data type e.g. 'int' will then make a regex matching on all data types.
    • For matematical comparisons, entering any comparison will match on all: == != >= > <= <.

Misalign

Open the Command palette and run Align Text: Misalign selection

When run:

  • Replace all excessive whitespace with a single space, ignoring indentation.

Keyboard shortcuts

No shortcuts are provided by default. Set them manually in File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+K Ctrl+S).

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