Humor: Cargo Cult Programming
Kevin D. Clark
kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com
Thu Nov 14 17:59:30 EST 2002
Derek Martin <gnhlug at sophic.org> writes:
> > Let's say that I have the following LaTeX code:
> > (note: the #'s here are complete garbage)
>
> > Suppose I decide that this looks horrible, and I want to clean this
> > up. In Emacs I can type a few keys and transmorgify things thusly:
>
> > Out of curiosity, does VIM do anything like this?
>
> sure. :%s/ &/^I&/ (or some similar command for different cases). Vi
> does that too.
That's not exactly what I want. I want the ampersands to line up, no
matter how much stuff is between the ampersands. I don't care about
tab stops, I just want the ampersands to line up.
Thanks,
--kevin
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