This looks like a great tool, thanks for sharing! I particularly like the ability to compute a new column via a python snippet.
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 8:51 AM Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I discovered a pretty awesome tool yesterday related to text files / > tables / text processing in the console, I thought I'd highlight it here > since I suspect a lot of you might be interested in this. > > I've had it in the back of my mind to build a renderer / visualizer for > CSV files for curses, either as an Emacs mode or as a standalone tool, for > a very long time. I remember looking for this years ago and it didn't exist > and I thought "this is crazy." And it seems as the years go by, I'm using > less and less GUI programs--tmux was a big discontinuity in that > direction--and basically, I can be pretty complete with just a terminal and > Chrome (of course in the terminal I need to run Emacs and bash and all that > good stuff). So the idea that I can't even render and filter and arrange > tables in the console was bother me. > > Well someone has built one, in Python, and it's really slick and looks > stable: > https://www.visidata.org/ > It not only renders the CSV files as tables in the console, but provides a > bunch of clever editing features as well. > > As I'll be moving Beancount's query engine to work on more general tables, > this tool will be a really great complement, especially if it can be used > as a pager. > > Enjoy, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhNW57ujJ4tu6AUefo_uFZ_woL-r%2BjNiCi6Tb6quTnG2Pw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhNW57ujJ4tu6AUefo_uFZ_woL-r%2BjNiCi6Tb6quTnG2Pw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACGEkZtYormOZ8LACGG4-Apx7W6EbbfVcDLjD%3D8_VkWE0LgW4Q%40mail.gmail.com.
