vim-lion VS tabular

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.

Not exactly what you are asking for, but table formatting is usually enough with general purpose align plugins: - mini.align - junegunn/vim-easy-align - godlygeek/tabular

A tabular substitute? 😮

godlygeek/tabular for aligning things, sometimes useful

I always find the vim Tabular plugin for vim verry useful. Do you guys know if there is a similar package for emacs?

A lot of times I just use tabular in Vim to align stuff, but that involves manual typing of characters (but pressing tab or | to go to the next cell doesn't really matter IMHO).

If I were doing it once I would use Tabular to evenly space and align the columns with Tabularize/|, then use visual block mode to cut and paste the chunk where i want it