On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:28:29AM EDT, Benji Fisher wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 04:52:50PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > Does vim provide any form of native support for drawing tables? > > > > I have tried a couple of plugins and they don't seem to play well with > > my setup, presumably because I have temporarily switched my locale back > > from UTF-8 to en_US (due to problems with other applications that do are > > not yet utf8-ready). > > > > When in UTF-8 I was able to manually draw nice-looking tables to dress > > up text that I had previously formatted in rows and columns by using > > digraphs (Ctrl+K hh/vv etc..) and though there were some issues with > > printing I was all-in-all quite happy. > > > > The functionalities I had in mind would probably do something like this: > > > > 1. Assist text entry by letting you define tab stops, > > 2. Let you select a column of text and justify it, > > 3. Provide some means of inserting vertical lines at each tab stop, > > 4. Assist in creating horizontal lines by adding the ad hoc character > > where a vertical and a horizontal line intersect, > > 5. Reformat the table frame when box drawing characters are not > > available (replacing line intersections by '+' for instance). > > > > But then again I have little experience with vim and there is probably > > a "vim way" of doing this that I have not even imagined. So I am open > > to better strategies. > > You mention trying some plugins, but you did not say which ones, so > I do not know if you have already tried these suggestions.
Sorry, I mostly tried "draw.vim" by Timo Frenay and the problem that I ran into was that instead of box drawing characters I was getting capital A's with an umlaut/diaresis on top. As mentioned earlier, I had to switch my settings back to en.US - UTF-8 did not play well with the elinks text-mode browser among others. I'm pretty much stuck with this UTF-8 problem at present since I would like all my text-mode apps to run on one xterm with gnu/screen. I will try to run another quick test of the draw.vim plugin on an UTF8-enabled xterm.. Thanks, cga
