Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> writes: > I really love Emacs, however... […] > > This is clearly a case where choosing the proper tool is important. I > agree that using a spreadsheet to edit a 3x5 CSV file is likely > overkill (might just as well use Notepad or TextEdit), but tabular > data are tabular data, no matter how they might be delimited, and if > there are many of those little data critters, there are better tools > than a text editor (or Python IDE) for maintaining them.
It seems an obvious thing for powerful text editors like Emacs and Vim to have a third-party mode for editing CSV data with a tabular interface. Indeed, such modes exist; one that I found immediately for Emacs is <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/csv-mode.el>. Has anyone got a good Emacs mode for editing CSV data as a table and saving it back to CSV data? -- \ “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without | `\ having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it | _o__) too?” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list