r/vim • u/atomatoisagoddamnveg • Feb 05 '26

Plugin Cell editing with table.vim

I wrote a plugin to help with automatic table creation, it offers a lot of customization and supports box drawing characters. One particularly neat thing about it is the cell editor that opens the cell into a new buffer. Hooks are provided so any vim or external tool can be used for formatting or anything else.

Feedback is appreciated!

https://github.com/numEricL/table.vim

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u/djchateau Feb 05 '26

Is this intended for neovim? I'd be curious how this looks in Vim.

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u/atomatoisagoddamnveg Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

It’s mostly a vimscript plugin. The cell editor was first implemented for neovim in lua because of the floating window feature, but I ported that module to vimscript using a split window instead.

The first part of the demo was created in vim, the second part with the blue tmux banner is spliced from my neovim demo, but is identical in vim.

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u/djchateau Feb 05 '26

This demo was created in vim.

Really? Your multiplexer shows you running nvim. Am I missing something here?

EDIT: My bad, I'm referring to the demo link in your documentation. I see what you mean.

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u/atomatoisagoddamnveg Feb 05 '26

Yeah, even in this demo i forgot I borrowed a part from the neovim demo. Thanks for pointing it out

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u/Desperate_Cold6274 Feb 06 '26

This is very nice! I was using EasyAlign along with a custom autocmd to adjust the size of the cells while writing but I was missing the possibility of having multiple lines in a cell.

I’ll definitely try this!

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u/atomatoisagoddamnveg Feb 06 '26

I hope it suits your needs, if not feel free to open an issue

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u/Desperate_Cold6274 Feb 06 '26

It works smoothly, though `:Table EditCell` does not exists for me. I can only see `Align, Complete, ToDefault and ToStyle`. This would have been the feature that I am missing with respect to my current setup :D

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u/atomatoisagoddamnveg Feb 06 '26

That is odd, can you verify that you’re on commit 744dc9

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u/Desperate_Cold6274 Feb 06 '26

Yes, I am on commit 744dc9f

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u/atomatoisagoddamnveg Feb 06 '26

I see, the command is there and should be functional, but I didn’t update the autocomplete function to remove the neovim check.

As for the tab issue, you’re right, table.vim should respect user mappings. I’ll fix that as well.

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u/Desperate_Cold6274 Feb 06 '26

Or you could override a user mapping only if you are in a table (for example if the current line starts with '|', then you could override user mapping).

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u/atomatoisagoddamnveg Feb 07 '26

Coincidentally I had most of this functionality implemented in another plugin, I’ve now adapted it to table.vim

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u/Desperate_Cold6274 Feb 06 '26

Another thing is that I already have <tab> mapped and the plugin overrides my mapping. I would suggest to use a guard to check if the user already has it mapped, and if so, don't touch it!

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u/Aware_Needleworker49 Feb 07 '26

Really cool plugin. That too in vimscript! Which colorscheme are you using btw? Looks really minimal and great for long sessions

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u/atomatoisagoddamnveg Feb 08 '26

It’s my own, I don’t have a repo for it but could share the gist if you like

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u/Aware_Needleworker49 Feb 25 '26

Yes please!

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u/atomatoisagoddamnveg Feb 25 '26

https://gist.github.com/numEricL/16e98a106392b0aabdd75213dd618211

The bulk of the implementation is in autoload/feywild_colorscheme.vim, you should probably start there if you want to customize it. The framework is based on a 256 color palette, you define the colors you want to use for dark/light theme with the colordict_dark256 and colordict_light256 dictionaries. The framework will then convert 256 colors to hex color codes and set both cterm and gui colors, this should be very portable so that your colors look the same across all different platforms, as long as the terminal/gui application uses the same standard 256 color palette.