Helo everyone

Is there posible to align associative array structure or objects elements in php like this:
http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-t ... bular-vim/

Cheers

Can you please post an example of the desired text structure?
Kate should keep the current alignment when you move to the next line, which may help.

(this is why I hate videos explaining how to do things: I don't want to watch a 5 minute video just to reply to this -- if it was in screenshots + text I could grasp the relevant information much more quickly)

You can write your own indenters for kate in JavaScript. There you can do anything you want with alignment.

Greetings!

@bcooksley

Example 1.
Oginal:

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array = (
    'var' => 1,
    'foobar' => 2,
    'anotherexample' => 3
)

What I want:

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array = (
    'var'            => 1,
    'foobar'         => 2,
    'anotherexample' => 3
)

Example 2.
Oginal:

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Class::var = 1;
Class::foobar = 2;
Class::anotherexample = 3;


What I want:

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Class::var            = 1;
Class::foobar         = 2;
Class::anotherexample = 3;


@scummos
I know I can do it in Javascript, but I hope, someone already wrote it.

If you do end up writing such a solution yourself, please do post it here so others can use it.

I've written some code, but it work only in javascript console and only for equal char as delimiter. If anyone feels up to make plugin with this code (maby I, bun not now ) and add the ability to choose char of indent, welcome . The code:

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var selectionRange = view.selection();
if (view.hasSelection()) {
    if (selectionRange.isValid()) {
        var fromLine = selectionRange.start.line;
        var toLine = selectionRange.end.line;
        var maxIndent = 0;
        var linesIndents = [];
        var searchChar = '=';

        for (i = fromLine; i <= toLine; i++) {
            linesIndents[i] = document.line(i).indexOf(searchChar);
            if(linesIndents[i] > maxIndent)
                maxIndent = linesIndents[i];
        }

        for (i = fromLine; i <= toLine; i++) {
            var currentText = document.line(i);
            var spaces = '';

            for(j = 0; j < maxIndent - linesIndents[i]; j++)
                spaces = spaces + ' ';

            document.editBegin();
            document.removeText(i, 0, i, currentText.length);
            document.insertText(i, 0, currentText.replace(searchChar, spaces + searchChar));
            document.editEnd();
        }
    }
}

The plugin:

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/* kate-script
 * author: sirsimon
 * license: LGPL
 * revision: 3
 * kate-version: 3.4
 * type: commands
 * functions: align
 */

require ('range.js');

function align()
{
    var selectionRange = view.selection();
    if (view.hasSelection()) {
        if (selectionRange.isValid()) {
            var fromLine     = selectionRange.start.line;
            var toLine       = selectionRange.end.line;
            var maxIndent    = 0;
            var linesIndents = [];
            var searchChar   = '=';

            for (i = fromLine; i <= toLine; i++) {
                linesIndents[i] = document.line(i).indexOf(searchChar);
                if(linesIndents[i] > maxIndent)
                    maxIndent = linesIndents[i];
            }

            for (i = fromLine; i <= toLine; i++) {
                var currentText = document.line(i);
                var spaces      = '';

                for(j = 0; j < maxIndent - linesIndents[i]; j++)
                    spaces = spaces + ' ';

                document.editBegin();
                document.removeText(i, 0, i, currentText.length);
                document.insertText(i, 0, currentText.replace(searchChar, spaces + searchChar));
                document.editEnd();
            }
        }
    }
}

function action(cmd)
{

    var a = new Object();
    a.icon        = '';
    a.category    = i18n('Editing');
    a.interactive = false;

    if (cmd == 'align') {
        a.text     = i18n('Equal the right side');
        a.shortcut = 'Ctrl+Alt+Right';
    }

    return a;
}

function help(cmd)
{
    if (cmd == 'align') {
        return i18n('Equal the right side by the equal sign.');
    }
}


Keyboar shortcut - Ctrl + Alt + Right
Still align only to '=', so it will work for PHP's '=>' to.

Take, test, use, copy, fix, whatever

Thanks for posting your solution to this - i've now marked it as solved (which should make it easier for future searchers to find).

Please, edit translations, if required, my english is a bit lame. Would great if someone with regexp skill, add option to autodetect character of align, like example ':' in javascripts objects, or something else.