nvim-peekup VS vim-lion

Have a look at the plugin repository, it is a fun way to interact with vim registers, an aspect that is often overlooked by many users.

You could use my plugin (normal mode only) :-)

I understand your concern but ultimately open sourcing projects means exactly that people are free to take them and use/re-write them at will (unless specified otherwise, and even in that case you shouldn't have open sourced it in the first place otherwise). I myself am the author of nvim-peekup and shortly after I published an extremely similar plugin was born (exactly same functionalities, slight minor changes) - I won't cite it because I don't want to spotlight them (but you could find it in any list of nvim plugins nowadays) and because my code being free means people can copy&paste at will.

A plugin that helps with that is nvim-peekup :)

nvim-peekup

someone wrote a sexier version of it: nvim-peekup (neovim only) :p

You can now opt out of the delay. Credits to u/mfontani for this and other features!

This is how (with a little self-promotion of my plugin) :p

This merge request implements your suggestion, making it compatible with the latest builds.

I use vim-lion for this. But generally, I don't like aligning things like this, as it makes the code more effort to write and maintain in any editor that isn't set up exactly how I have mine set up.

Not out of the box, but the are several plugins that can do it, I prefer https://github.com/tommcdo/vim-lion

If you want to rename short_var without having to redo the spaces, you can use R to type over it. Though personally, I avoid writing my code like this and use vim-lion for alignment when I have to. 99% of the time, I use ce or ciw to rename variables.

it's always nice to reference the "state of the art" / competition in the README. It helps the user get a better idea what the software is about. For instance https://github.com/tommcdo/vim-lion

vim-lion

There's also a third option: use a plugin designed for automatically doing whitespace text alignment. Personally, I use vim-lion for this. In your example, you would hit glip= (align text inside the current paragraph by inserting spaces to the left of the first =). The default configuration aligns with the maximum spacing currently used, but you can also configure it to use the minimum spacing necessary to align all the lines.