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dhruvasagar / vim-table-mode

VIM Table Mode for instant table creation.
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[Request] Horizontal Tables #167

Closed Corey-Keller closed 4 years ago

Corey-Keller commented 4 years ago

What I have:

    +-----------+-----------+
    | Heading 1 | Heading 2 |
    +===========+===========+
    | H1I1      | H2I1      |
    +-----------+-----------+
    | H1I2      | H2I2      |
    +-----------+-----------+
    | H1I3      | H2I3      |
    +-----------+-----------+
    | H1I4      | H2I4      |
    +-----------+-----------+

What I want:

    +===========+------+------+------+------+
    | Heading 1 | H1I1 | H1I2 | H1I3 | H1I4 |
    +===========+------+------+------+------+
    | Heading 2 | H2I1 | H2I2 | H2I3 | H2I4 |
    +===========+------+------+------+------+

This works as-is, (sort of, at the end I have to manually delete the === row and replace it with a regular one), but there's no way of visually distinguishing the header column.

EDIT: I've updated it with a potential way of distinguishing the header column.

dhruvasagar commented 4 years ago

@Corey-Keller I am not quite sure how useful this is. I have never seen this table format used for something practical that I know of. Can you share some background on the use case ?

Corey-Keller commented 4 years ago

It's in a vim help file. Really the 'use case' was just that I didn't like all the wasted vertical space (the vertical table took up maybe 1/3 of the 80 character width, but fit perfectly horizontally.

dhruvasagar commented 4 years ago

@Corey-Keller I will have to decline this request at the moment.