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...
