Question about targeting areas to align

[diVineProportion]

I'm curious if one is able to align by, say comma, but only align to the commas in the section defined by another regex. So i can perform aligntab on the whole document, but have it align in sections

Figured an example would best express my question

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actions\systemStats
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    {name = "foobarfoobarfoobarfoobarfoobar", type = "text", def="event_name" } 
    {name = "barfoobarfoobarfoobar", type = "text", def="event_name" } 

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actions\tacticalMapControl
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    {name = "follow_player", type="bool", def = false}
    {name = "use_scale", type = "bool", def = false}
    {name = "scale", type = "point2", def = [5000, 5000]}

So idea output would be

actions\systemStats
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    {name = "foobarfoobarfoobarfoobarfoobar" , type = "text" , def="event_name" }
    {name = "barfoobarfoobarfoobar"          , type = "text" , def="event_name" }
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actions\tacticalMapControl
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    {name = "follow_player" , type="bool"     , def = false}
    {name = "use_scale"     , type = "bool"   , def = false}
    {name = "scale"         , type = "point2" , def = [5000  , 5000]}

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[randy3k]

You could either use the automatic line detection or select the region to align.

[diVineProportion]

too many sections to do it select them one at a time. Is automatic line detection smart detection?

[randy3k]

yes, then there is no better option now.