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Tabular
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Sometimes, it's useful to line up text. Naturally, it's nicer to have the
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computer do this for you, since aligning things by hand quickly becomes
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unpleasant. While there are other plugins for aligning text, the ones I've
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tried are either impossibly difficult to understand and use, or too simplistic
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to handle complicated tasks. This plugin aims to make the easy things easy
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and the hard things possible, without providing an unnecessarily obtuse
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interface. It's still a work in progress, and criticisms are welcome.
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See [Aligning Text with Tabular.vim](http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/)
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for a screencast that shows how Tabular.vim works.
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See [doc/Tabular.txt](http://raw.github.com/godlygeek/tabular/master/doc/Tabular.txt)
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for detailed documentation.
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Installation
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If you don't have a preferred installation method, I recommend installing
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[pathogen.vim](https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen), and then simply
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copy and paste:
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mkdir -p ~/.vim/bundle
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cd ~/.vim/bundle
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git clone git://github.com/godlygeek/tabular.git
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Once help tags have been generated (either using Pathogen's `:Helptags`
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command, or by pointing vim's `:helptags` command at the directory where you
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installed Tabular), you can view the manual with `:help tabular`.
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