the => are not aligned

[Dan33l]

Expected Behavior

The => used in one resource are all aligned.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Write into pp document

file { '/tmp/foo':
  ensure => directory,
  mode =

2. With cursor at end of line 3, hit the key >.
3. The two => are aligned.

Environment

• Version 1.0.0 in directory ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/
• Platform Ubuntu 24.04, vim 9.1 (from deb package)
• Installed plugins : vim-airline, vim-json, vim-puppet, vim-ruby, yaml-vim, coc
• ~/.vimrc (but an empty file change nothing)

syntax on

" don't care for concealing with json files
let g:vim_json_syntax_conceal = 0

" To ensure that warning and error messages show in the status line
set statusline+=%{coc#status()}

set autoindent
set smartindent

" Update title of window or terminal
set title

" Enable line numbers
set number

" Max memory to use for pattern matching
set maxmempattern=40000

" Highlight non-ASCII characters
" https://stackoverflow.com/a/26209681
highlight NonASCII ctermbg=DarkRed guibg=DarkRed
call matchadd('NonASCII', '[^\u0000-\u007F]')

" Highlight Literal Tabs
highlight LiteralTab ctermbg=Yellow guibg=Yellow
call matchadd('LiteralTab', '\t')

" Highlight Trailing Whitespace
highlight TrailingWhitespace ctermbg=White guibg=White
call matchadd('TrailingWhitespace', '\s\+$')

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.pp setlocal expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.rb setlocal expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.erb setlocal expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.epp setlocal expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.json setlocal expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2 conceallevel=0

[lelutin]

hello @Dan33l

this is the currently expected behavior. in the current implementation, the trigger for aligning arrows is to type => (both characters) fast enough. typing just > after an = will not trigger the auto-alignment.

but maybe it should? to change that we'd need to have a mapping on > in input mode that checks if the character before the cursor is a = and if so, triggers auto-align, and otherwise does nothing (lets the character typed enter the buffer normally).

just off the top of my head I'm not sure how to implement this though, we'd have to do some testing and investigation. if you're feeling comfortable with modifying the vimscript to implement this, then go ahead. otherwise I'll see if I can get to this at some point in the future.