Everything showing in one column

[Ryano]

Is there anyway I can have things show up in one column without manually changing everything?
For example, here is a file I’m editing.

Now how would I make them all show up like this automatically?

[Michael Vincent]

@ryano said in Everything showing in one column:

Is there anyway I can have things show up in one column without manually changing everything?

There is a plugin called “Code Alignment” that can be installed from the Plugins => Plugin Admin menu that will do exactly this - not automatically, you’ll need to highlight the selection and tell it to align code by what character you want - in this case, the = .

Cheers.

[Alan Kilborn]

@ryano

On a one time basis, you could do this.

Take some data (since, pet peeve, you didn’t provide anything textually) that I made up:

aaaaaaaaaaa=bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=bbbbbbbbb
aaaa=bbbbbbbb
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=bbbbbbb
a=b

Replace = with = plus a “good quantity” of spaces to get:

aaaaaaaaaaa=                          bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=                          bbbbbbbbb
aaaa=                          bbbbbbbb
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=                          bbbbbbb
a=                          b

Make a column selection (using Ctrl+Shift+arrows) like this:

Press Ctrl+Delete to obtain:

aaaaaaaaaaa=         bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=    bbbbbbbbb
aaaa=                bbbbbbbb
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=    bbbbbbb
a=                   b