PipeTableFormatter

Small IDEA plugin for formatting text blocks that represents a table delimited by pipe (|). For example, can be used to format JBehave examples table.

Thanks to Idris Ahmed ([idrisahmed251] (https://github.com/idrisahmed251)) and to Jesse Kuhnert ([jkuhnert] (https://github.com/jkuhnert)) for ideas to use comma and tab as delimeters.

Features

• Formats block of text that represents a table: width of a column becomes constant from top to bottom by adjusting it to most wide value in the column.
• Supported delimiters: pipe, comma, tab.
• Any of supported delimiters, when formatting, are converted to pipe.
• If text is not selected explicitly - automatically detects start and end of a table on base of caret position.
• All tables in the editor can be formatted by one action

Example

text like:

|Header 1|Header 2|
|val1|val2|

or like:

Header 1,Header 2
val1,val2

is formatted to:

| Header 1 | Header 2 |
| val1     | val2     |

Installation

From Plugin Repository: http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7550

Usage

1. Select text that should be formatted or just put caret somewhere inside a table.
2. Choose action Pipe Table -> Format in Code menu or popup menu.