Display-only live column arrangement?

[naught101]

It would be nice to have a view mode that is like the results of :ArrangeColumns, but doesn't actually modify the file. That is, column widths are calculated, and then the separator is displayed as <sep><x spaces> where x is column width - column contents width. Ideally, column widths would be corrected whenever a cell was edited (not while in insert mode, but after).

I'm not sure how feasible this would be, given Vim's structure, nor how computationally intensive this would be, but it would be really nice for smallish CSVs anyway.

[chrisbra]

I think, this is like the collapse feature from issue #41 . This might be possible, with the conceal feature, but probably makes Vim a lot slower.

[chrisbra]

closing see #41

[naught101]

Yeah, fair enough, I didn't realise that that was discussing a view-only arrangement. The ability to have that work on non-arranged columns would be an extra.