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TextFormat : Quickly align and format paragraphs and text areas: left, right, justify, center

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created by
Teemu Likonen
 
script type
utility
 
description
Note: This plugin is not maintained.

This plugin provides commands and key mappings to quickly align and format text. Text can be easily reformatted and aligned to either left or right margin or justified to both margins or centered. The text formatting commands provided by this plugin are a bit more automatic and more intelligent than those integrated to Vim. Together they make more powerful command set for formatting text.

Manual is included, just type

    :help textformat.txt

Default keymappings:

    \al     Left-align and reformat
    \ar     Right-align
    \aj     Left-right justify and reformat
    \ac     Center lines

The prefix key is actually <Leader> key. It's backlash by default but it is configurable.
 
install details
The plugin uses Vimball plugin archive format (vimscript#1502). To install the package, load the file to Vim and run command

    :source %

To remove the plugin, type

    :RmVimball textformat
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
textformat.vba 2.1 2008-09-13 7.0 Teemu Likonen Minor internal cleanup
textformat.vba 2.0 2008-08-10 7.0 Teemu Likonen * \al and \aj now reformat text also in visual mode.
* \al and \aj honor "w" in 'formatoptions' and detect paragraph boundaries accordingly.
* :AlignLeft, :AlignJustify, \al and \aj recognize several paragraphs within the range and detect indent for each paragraph separately.
* Add logic to load the plugin script only once.
textformat.vba 1.1 2008-08-03 7.0 Teemu Likonen -- Keep cursor position more accurately when formatting a paragraph with \al and \aj.
-- When 'joinspaces' is set insert two spaces after .?! punctuation with left-right justify. This is now similar to other commands.
textformat.vba 1.0 2008-08-02 7.0 Teemu Likonen -- All the commands now follow user's 'expandtab' setting and print leading whitespaces accordingly. Now this works just like :left, :right and :center commands. -- The left-aligned last line in justified paragraph did not honor 'joinspaces'. Fixed.
textformat.vba 0.9 2008-08-01 7.0 Teemu Likonen Initial upload
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