Re: [Docutils-users] replacement directive and formatting tables (in vim)

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2019-11-03, Saša Janiška wrote:
> Hello,

> in my content I have a need to use many replacement directives, e.g. for
> entering Unicode characters for planets, so I have things like:

> .. |Jupiter| replace:: ♃

> However, since rst uses '|' as table's cell separator, when I use the
> above-like replacement directives, they clash with the code used to
> reformat tables in vim (using https://github.com/gu-fan/riv.vim)
> package, so I wonder if someone can provide some workaround to be able
> to stay with rst **and** using vim editor?

Unfortunately, there is no simple way to use a different syntax for
replacements.

You may use `simple tables`__ without |, but maybe these cannot be formatted
by your editor.

__ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#simple-tables

You could also try to teach the table formatter the difference between a
table column separator (with whitespace around, regexp "(^| )[|]( |$)")
and the replacement syntax (no inner whitespace).

Finally, it may be simpler to use the Unicode characters directly via
drag-and drop or group-replacing a placeholder in the editor.

Ahoj,

Günter