How would you have other tools like cat(1) or ls(1) handle them? On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 6:16 AM, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2018, at 10:05, 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/ > > Seems reasonable to me. For the purpose of transferring data between two > different spreadsheet programs that cannot read each other's native formats, > seems much better than using tabs or commas. > > If I were doing editing of this text format directly, I'd want my > editor/pager to have some tools to make it easier. Maybe display the Unit > Separator as a special-color pipe and the Record Separator as a special-color > newline and the Group Separator as a special-color double newline (i.e. blank > line). And an easy way to type in these characters in the editor. For > example, Unit Separator can be entered in Emacs as C-x 8 RET 1 f RET, so a > better shortcut would be useful, e.g. C-| (control pipe). >
-- Thanks, Adi
