Re: Decent editor for CSV files

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Decent editor for CSV files
Date	2015-09-06 04:44 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnmunh8l.213c.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
References	<slrnmunc6l.213c.g.kreme@amelia.local> <d51s8lFrgcdU1@mid.individual.net>

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  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2015-09-06, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> I have a user who does not have Office and has a database of addresses
>> stored as a CSV file. She needs to edit this file on occasions, but she
>> needs something that treats the CSV file as a spreadsheet or table.
>>
>> Numbers works, but to save the file she has to do a File > Export > CSV
>> and then overwrite the file in place.
>>
>> This scares her every time, which leads her to call me.

> Would she feel more at ease saving the document to her desktop first,
> verifying it's ok, and then copying it to replace the original?

Nope, it's the replacing that freaks her out.

> It wouldn't be very hard to write a little application to edit the data.
> The app would read the CSV, present the data to the user in tabular or
> form format, and then save the CSV when done. You could write it as a
> stand-alone Mac application with Objective-C or Swift, or as a web (PHP,
> whatever) application in a browser.

Hmm, that's an idea.


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Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 03:18 +0000
  Re: Decent editor for CSV files Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-06 04:03 +0000
    Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 04:44 +0000
      Re: Decent editor for CSV files Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-09-06 05:15 +0000
        Re: Decent editor for CSV files dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-09-06 22:08 +1200
        Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 18:17 +0000
  Re: Decent editor for CSV files Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-09-06 07:39 +0200
    Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 18:20 +0000
  Re: Decent editor for CSV files Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2015-09-06 12:47 -0400
    Re: Decent editor for CSV files Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-06 16:56 +0000
      Re: Decent editor for CSV files Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2015-09-08 13:28 -0400
        Re: Decent editor for CSV files Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-08 21:23 +0000
          Re: Decent editor for CSV files Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2015-09-09 20:27 -0400
            Re: Decent editor for CSV files Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-10 05:54 +0000
  Re: Decent editor for CSV files Louis Wu <louiswu@ringworld.net> - 2015-09-06 17:11 -0700
    Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-07 01:28 +0000
      Re: Decent editor for CSV files Louis Wu <louiswu@ringworld.net> - 2015-09-07 19:53 -0700
        Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-08 07:47 +0000

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