Code Alignment/Align Text Column

[ElAv252]

in emacs there is a feature that give us the ability to align text by regexp, for example:

### Align Text

Alt+x align-regexp to align text.

For example, suppose you have:

tom = 5
jenny = 8
mary = 7

and you want to align them by the equal sign. Just select the text, then Alt+x align-regexp then give “=”. Then you get:

tom   = 5
jenny = 8
mary  = 7

So i highly recommended to add this feature to zed, it will help many people (Include me ;) )

Thanks!

[0x2CA]

The alignment function seems to be more of a formatting style thing, and the formatter style implementation can be configured, if not as far as I know vim can use ! implement

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[ElAv252]

WOW, i didn't know about this.
Thanks a lot!
And do you know how this operation called in zed?

[anbcodes]

For anyone else that wants to create a keybind (like "g f"). You can add this to keymap.json

  {
    "context": "Editor && vim_mode == visual",
    "bindings": {
      "g f": ["workspace::SendKeystrokes", ": ! column space - t enter"]
    }
  }

But it would still be nice to have this native in zed.