How do I line nice and pretty comma seperated columns in vim

Question

I have a list of columns in vim:

column_foo
, column_foobar
, column_really_way_to_long
, column_prefixfoo_prefixbar_really way to long

I want these to become padded and joined such that it looks something like this

, foo     ,  bar    ,  baz    ,  quz_quadazzel
, foobar  ,  moono  ,  bleh   ,  bleh  

Is there an easy sequence of commands that I can do for this? In addition, I'd like to know how to pad a visual block to a specific amount of characters.

foobar
, baz
, z
, really_long_column_of_stuff

I.e, how can I right pad to make all of the columns length(' , really_long_column_of_stuff')

Answer 1

If you are on Linux, this neat little trick will work:

%!column -t

Answer 2

Have a look at the Align plugin. Here are some examples of its capabilities.