<Tab> and <Shift+Tab> work in insert mode, but not normal mode. Anyone know how to make them work in vim normal mode?

In Emacs navigation by Tab and Shift+Tab skips separator rows. Same should be done in this extension.

The preview shows it adds underline of header automatically.
But it took no effect on my PC, I tried in or not in table mode , result same.

It would be nice to keep table indentation level unchanged during formatting. I'm using the extension in the context of a language which uses tables which are nested inside other code elements. Currently, Text Tables always reformat table at the first column.

Emacs orgmode keep indentation according to the first row. So the | of the table beginning is anchored and never moves. User can explicitly indent first line to affect indentation of the whole table.

Example:

        | first | second |
  |  blah blah | this is some text |

after reformatting becomes

        | first     | second            |
        | blah blah | this is some text |

I have investigated the code today and the first idea was to keep the indentation level startCol on the table model during parsing and then indent each line by that value during stringifying. Probably navigation commands should be updated to take indentation into account. For example, pressing Tab when in the indent region should jump into the first column of that row.
Are there any gotchas I'm not aware of?

BTW, thanks for the extension. It is really helpful.

Current codebase is a mess with a lot of duplications. Need to review architecture of the extension, remove duplications, extract entities, etc.

It's been awhile since the last time I toched the extension. When using recent version of VSCode, many tests are failing during run. Error is:

Extension 'Text Tables' failed to update workspace folders:
Error: Entering a new workspace is not possible in tests.

Looks like I need to figure out how to test different configurations without creating workspace from test.

Currently code is very messy and there is a lot of duplication. Need to reorganize it.

Also, there are no unit tests at all. Need to cover code with tests.

Sometimes I need to use word suggestions provided by vscode. But I have to commit the suggested word with tab or enter. Problem is: when I'm in table mode, both tab and enter has cell-ralated functions which overrides the default suggestion-commiting. How to make this work for me?
Below is a gif of what happens after I press enter:

In Emacs it's possible to move rows and columns of table via shortcuts:

Move column left: M-Left
Move column right: M-Right
Move row down: M-Down
Move row up: M-Up

While default VSCode shortcuts for moving rows via M-Up and M-Down fit quite good for this purpose, additional check should be done that we don't move row outside of table.

For showcase, refer to wiki

This feature would be super useful, see the grid tables found here

Currently it's possible to switch mode only through commands in command palette.

ctrl+q ctrl+q seems like good keybinding for this that should not conflict with any other.

When editing a table in org mode, the table headline is converted to markdown format
before

| Incident         | Desc                                                    | Vendor ticket | Vendor Case | Status    | Date  Closed |
|----------------+-------------------------------------------------------+-------------+-----------+---------+------------|
| [[IN1907230854]] | FL1 Battery aged and Flash module failure               | P5617KK       | TS002509957 | Closed    |              |

After inserting a new entry at bottom of table

| Incident         | Desc                                                    | Vendor ticket | Vendor Case | Status    | Date  Closed |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- | ----------- | --------- | ------------ |
| [[IN1907230854]] | FL1 Battery aged and Flash module failure               | P5617KK       | TS002509957 | Closed    |              |

Build in Travis CI is currently broken because of 1 test failing

Test "Create table" for markdown:
Error: Unable to write into workspace settings because the file is dirty. Please save the workspace settings file first and then try again.

This error occurs only when running tests through npm run test.

Subj.

As an example of project with coverage, use: https://github.com/codecov/example-typescript-vscode-extension

In Emacs it's possible to execute command org-table-create and provide table size in format NxM, where N is number of columns and M is number of rows. After pressing enter, new table is created in current cursor position. Newly created table also contain separator row after header, i.e. if you provide 2x2 as argument, newly created table will look like this:

|   |   |
|---+---|
|   |   |

Sample from emacs:

When executing command Create table in markdown mode, it fails with the following stack trace:

RangeError: Invalid count value
extensionHostProcess.js:85
	at String.repeat (native)
	at __dirname.separatorReducer.cols (/Users/rpeshkov/Developer/vscode-extensions/vscode-text-tables/out/src/ttMarkdown.js:95:48)
	at Array.reduce (native)
	at MarkdownStringifier.stringify (/Users/rpeshkov/Developer/vscode-extensions/vscode-text-tables/out/src/ttMarkdown.js:75:37)

I go to Table mode, and create a table. The keybinding looks right in settings.
However instead of jumping to the next cell, a tab is entered.

If a ligature is used then the row misaligns left by one space.

For this table, the ⟺ character is double width, but the extension treats it as a single-width character, which results in an unaligned table.

How it looks:

| ¬(A ⟺ B)          | Premise |
| (A ⟹ B) ∧ (B ⟹ A) |         |
|                   |         |

How it should look:

| ¬(A ⟺ B)           | Premise |
| (A ⟹ B) ∧ (B ⟹ A) |         |
|                   |         |

Hello!

I use VSCodeVim and recently installed your ext. Find it very useful - thank you :) However, I can't get it work with Vim extension. My status always shows "Table Mode: Off" despite triggering "Text Tables: Enable" in command palette. It works only if I disable Vim ext. Any ideas/workarounds?

I tried the following:

    {
        "key": "ctrl+q",
        "command": "-extension.vim_ctrl+q",
    },

In hope of passthrough Vim handling. But it didn't give me anything.

After editing table in documentation I switched to other editor tab with some code and then Tab and Shift+Tab stopped working. It took some time to understand that problem was caused by enabled table mode.

Looks like Table Mode is enabled globally in vscode after its activation.

Is it possible to bind table mode to concrete editor tab, where it was activated or maybe to markdown files only?

If that global behavior is normal, maybe add setting, that makes table mode bound to single editor tab or markdown files only.

The "Table Mode: Off/On" status at the bottom takes up a lot of room, and I don't use tables anywhere except in mark down. Is it possible to hide this status either by setting, or by file extension?

P.S.: I could attempt this myself via PR, but I want to make sure this is in alignment with your vision for this extension if I have to spend time coding it.

In Emacs' org-mode there's command org-table-next-row that moves cursor to the next row or inserts new row if cursor is on last row of table. When new row inserted, cursor moves on this row, but stays in the same column.

Command is bind on Enter key.

In this extension same command should be introduced. As a shortcut Enter should be used, but it should work only in table mode.

Add command and shortcut for clearing cell under cursor.

For showcase refer to wiki

First of all, thank you for having made this great extension.

I'm mapping this table generator with vscode's vim plugin, and I tried to map moving cell with h, j, k, l.

It seems not natural to exist nextRow function without previousRow function, ecpecially in this mapping. h, j, l key had been sucessfuly mapped with this extension, but k is not working well.

I checked this extension carefully, and I find there is no previousRow function.

Could you add this function for user experience?

Hi,

I'm running Text Tables version 0.1.5.

Given:

| A| B|
| 1| 1|
| 0| 0|
|-1|-1|

Running format will render:

| A   | B   |
| 1   | 1   |
| 0   | 0   |
| --- | --- |

Thank you.

Currently extension activated only for markdown and org files. However, this extension might be also usable in any text file. There is activation event * in vscode that makes the extension to be loaded when vscode is started, but that may harm startup time of vscode.

In order to make everyone happy, new dummy command like Text tables: Enable should be introduced and added as the activation event.

Thanks for the great VSCode extension!

It would be nice to toggle the table mode using the status item.
I've already implemented a small patch for this. PR will follow.

Currently there are a couple of unit tests for testing of parser, stringifier, etc. Need to add integration tests, that actually create file, call commands and check the results.

Is there a way to escape pipes in the cell contents. For example when adding the below in the cell, the formatting is not correct.

awk 1 RS=" |\n"

How could I enable the extension automatically for my .txt files (just like with markdown and org files)?
That is:

• witout having to go to the Command Pallete to launch the Text Tables: Enable command
• and for all my projects (ie not in a per project basis)

When command Move to next cell is triggered, if the cursor was positioned in the last cell of table, new row should be added.

Compared to other mode indicators such as encoding, file format and line endings:

1. The Table Mode: On indicator takes up a lot of space.

• I don't think the indicator needs to appear when not in table mode
• perhaps "Table mode" would suffice, or even "table"
• The icon seems unnecessary unless you just use the icon on its own rather than any text

2. It's on the wrong side of the window - it should be in the bottom right

It appears that table mode only works for tables that have a leading pipe, but that's not required in github-flavoured markdown

Sample:

| Something | That |  |  |
|-

If you write colons ':' in the divider line to indicate the column must be centered, the colons will be removed after a reformatting.

Add commands for inserting/deleting rows/columns.

In Emacs it's done via following shortcuts:
Insert row: M-S-Down
Delete row: M-S-Up
Insert column: M-S-Right
Delete column: M-S-Left

For showcase refer to wiki

If a cell contains a pipe character then the "Format Under Cursor" command doesn't do anything. It would be nice if it was able to work this out, but maybe it isn't possible.

Here is an example of table that won't format:

Hi, Peshkov

Thank you for developing such a great plugin. I found a wrong behavior of handling markdown inline code block contain " | ". Below is my software environment and reproducible steps:

• VSCode version: 1.26.0 (4e9361)
• Text tables extension version: 0.1.5

Reproducible steps that cause the issue

copy bellow table to vscode

| A | B |
| --- | --- |
| `a | b` | `a || b` |

then execute command Text Tables: Format under cursor(^Q ^F)

What I expected to see and what I saw instead

I expected to see

| A       | B        |
| ------- | -------- |
| `a | b` | `a || b` |

but i saw this instead

| A   | B   |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `a  | b`  | `a  |     | b`  |

This is a feature request. It would be awsome if the extension supported Asciidoc tables as well as the existing ORG and MD tables.

Format under cursor successfully turns this:

|test|test2|test3|
|this is a|test not in a comment|

into this:

| test      | test2                 | test3 |
| this is a | test not in a comment |       |

Except if the table is in a code comment like this, in which case it does nothing.

// |test|test2|test3|
// |this is a|test not in a comment|

This is a feature request to support this for non-MD files.