README.md

align.tmbundle

This is a greatly improved alignment command. Rather than just aligning assignments it will align all sorts of things.

This is a work in progress and I've published this bundle so people can give it a try. In the long term I hope this will get merged into TextMate.

Installation

gem install json
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Avian/Bundles
git clone https://github.com/mads379/align.tmbundle.git

How to add alignment rules

Open the bundle editor (ctrl+alt+cmd+b). Find the Align bundle. Hit cmd+n and choose settings. Set the scope you want, fx source.ruby and add something like the following.

{ shellVariables = (
    { name = 'TM_SOURCE_ALIGNMENT_PATTERN';
      value = '[
      { 
        "regexp" : "=>", 
        "spacing" : "before"
      },
      { 
        "regexp" : ":", 
        "spacing" : "after"
      }]';
    },
  );
}

The value is a simply a JSON array with objects that has a regexp and spacing property. The regexp is the regular expression to match after and spacing can be either before or after depending on weather you want in insert the spaces before or after the matched text.

Missing features

• Left/right justify captures
• Enable scope specific block separators (currently uses blank lines and indentation to find blocks of code)

History

• Original discussion: http://old.nabble.com/Align-Source-td31636561.html
• Original proof of concept: https://gist.github.com/988793