vim-auto-tabstop

A Vim plugin for automatically setting tabstop size

This is mostly useful to align tsv files like this:

James\tSmith\t38,313
Michael\tSmith\t34,810
Robert\tSmith\t34,269
Maria\tGarcia\t32,092 (long string in last column is ignored)

With a tabstop of 2 this will look like this:

James Smith 38,313
Michael Smith 34,810
Robert  Smith 34,269
Maria Garcia  32,092 (long string in last column is ignored)

Pressing <c-t> will automatically set the tabstop to the value required to get proper alignment (in this case 8):

James   Smith   38,313
Michael Smith   34,810
Robert  Smith   34,269
Maria   Garcia  32,092 (long string in last column is ignored)