To my delight I just found out that leo has since a couple of versions the 
command edit-pane-csv.
This is extremely useful!

My problem is, that I have to deal with many CSV files, which often are 
tab-separated of semicolon separated.

So far I was only able to edit comma-separated files with this command.

Since I also could not find any documentation, I am asking this question 
here:

Is there a way to set the CSV separator?

Ideally it should allow arbitrary separators, but at least commas, tabs and 
semicolons, since these are very common (in Europe, Excel uses a semicolon, 
since the comma is used as decimal separator instead of a dot here).

Now for the "pie in the sky" wishes:

Even better would be to allow also "&" and simultaneously "\\" (two 
backslashes) as separator.
That way LaTeX tables could be more easily edited too.
LaTeX uses "&" as separator and a double backslash at the end of each row,
however there could be additional commands following the double backslash, 
like "\midrule".
The double backslash and anything that follows it, should remain at the end 
of their rows,
even if the last column is moved.
In the case o LaTeX tables, It would be even better if the source code 
would get aligned as well (all the "&"  aligning).

Also, is this command capable of allowing fields with embedded newline 
characters (not just at the end of each record, but inside a string as part 
of the string) ?

- Josef

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