Nnn: alignment of nodes listed in Batch rename

[harriott]

When I hit r in a folder, in this example a folder of music tracks, with the recently added feature of file-numbering on the left, there is a visual step at file number 10:

1 ./01 The Monitor
2 ./03 Click, Click, Click, Click
3 ./04 The Chinatown Bus
4 ./05 Flight 180
5 ./06 Like Castanets
6 ./07 Butterfly Nets
7 ./08 Shrinking Violet
8 ./09 Corazon
9 ./10 Middle Management
10 ./11 Choose Again
11 ./12 The News From Your Bed

This staggering means that I can't visually select an entire column in Vim (here to add a hypen between track number and title) in one go, but have to do the same operation twice (once for files 1-9, then again for the rest).

While in this case, as I'm using vim, and there's a consistency in the start of the file names, I can equally :%s#\(\d\d\) #\1 - # to insert my desired hyphen, but, for more general use-cases, it'd be sweet if you could pad out the first 9 file numbers.

[jarun]

@KlzXS I think this is a nice improvement. Probably the padding needs to be done based on the number of files taken as input. Can you take a look?

[KlzXS]

Added the padding in a PR. After editing the padding can freely be removed or added further as the script ignores leading and trailing whitespace on a line.

[jarun]

as the script ignores leading and trailing whitespace on a line

What if the filename has a leading or trailing whitespace OR the user wants to add?

[KlzXS]

What if the filename has a leading or trailing whitespace OR the user wants to add?

As my old professor used to say: that's a sad story. Unless you want to use some other delimiter which I don't think we should.

[KlzXS]

Maybe if we used something else instead of read but is it really worth it? How names their files with leading and trailing whitespace?

[jarun]

How names their files with leading and trailing whitespace?

I think we don't need to over-engineer either if someone wants to use crypic names for their files. Just add a note in the plugin that space is the delimiter and should not be used as a suffix or prefix.