Re: Editing tabular data

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Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

> I really love Emacs, however... […]
>
> This is clearly a case where choosing the proper tool is important. I
> agree that using a spreadsheet to edit a 3x5 CSV file is likely
> overkill (might just as well use Notepad or TextEdit), but tabular
> data are tabular data, no matter how they might be delimited, and if
> there are many of those little data critters, there are better tools
> than a text editor (or Python IDE) for maintaining them.

It seems an obvious thing for powerful text editors like Emacs and Vim
to have a third-party mode for editing CSV data with a tabular
interface.

Indeed, such modes exist; one that I found immediately for Emacs is
<URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/csv-mode.el>. Has anyone got a good
Emacs mode for editing CSV data as a table and saving it back to CSV
data?

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Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-31 13:39 -0500
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-31 19:02 +0000
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-31 14:35 -0500
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 01:50 +0100
      Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-08-01 14:04 +0000
      Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-02 02:15 -0700
    Re: Editing tabular data Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-02 16:35 +1000
      Re: Editing tabular data rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 09:58 -0700
    LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-02 17:14 +1000
    Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-02 10:37 +0100
      Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-02 14:00 +0000
    Re: LibreOffice Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-02 21:26 -0400
    Re: LibreOffice David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-08-03 11:08 -0400
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2013-07-31 20:03 +0100
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-07-31 19:07 +0000
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2013-07-31 13:37 -0700
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2013-07-31 18:40 -0500

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