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Set a bigger tab size in the editor, e.g. `:set ts=32` in vim.

vartabstop can help with per-column width. I found

https://sharats.me/posts/automating-the-vim-workplace-3/#usi...

which greatly improved my TSV editing experience in vim. Couple that with autocmd TextChangedI and you get realtime recalculation and alignment.

Aaaand now I can fit like 3 fields next to each other before they wrap and the field with arbitrary length text still misaligns the field after it

There is at least a chance that the text fields will fit in a tab. If not, a tool like “column” on Linux can be used. There is no chance that a text field will fit inside the width of a comma.

I was about to mention that column [1] is part of util-linux, so perhaps it's Linux specific, but then I noticed this in the FreeBSD man page [2]:

> The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/column.1.html

[2]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=column&sektion=1

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