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mort96
1y ago
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TSV looks incredibly ugly when opened in a text editor unless all values are 7 characters or less.
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nayuki
1y ago
There are some specialized text editors for editing files with tabs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_stop#Dynamic_tab_stops
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https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
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https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/
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ciupicri
1y ago
Set a bigger tab size in the editor, e.g. `:set ts=32` in vim.
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solidsnack9000
1y ago
How does CSV look when the fields are all of different widths?
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pstuart
1y ago
meh. The whitespace makes it easier to eyeball IMHO.
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