On Wed, May 16, 2018, at 15:05, Adrian Grigore wrote:
> What do you guys think of this:
>
> https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/
I think it's a reasonable alternative to CSV or TSV. I actually used it
for the file format for a small Vim plugin I wrote a few years ago:
https://github.com/Carpetsmoker/complete_email.vim#file-format
It's not perfect though. It's a bit difficult to type manually <C-v>030
are quite a lot of key strokes.
It also shows up as ^^ in Vim with the default settings, which looks
kind of weird. Some other editors may not display it at all.
Especially if you want non-tech people to deal with it using RS or US is
perhaps not a good idea. They'll open it in Notepad or Word and who
knows in what kind of interesting ways it'll get mangled and broken. In
a perfect world it would deal well with it, but Notepad still can't
handle Unix newlines...
Received on Wed May 16 2018 - 16:46:52 CEST