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It's nice being able to edit a CSV in a text editor. It wouldn't be worth it to lose that just to not have to escape some strings.
by jimmaswell 6y ago
It's nice being able to edit a CSV in a text editor. It wouldn't be worth it to lose that just to not have to escape some strings.
- afiori 6y agomore than that it is nice to edit files with a standard keyboard,
- db48x 6y agoIf your editor doesn't allow you to enter arbitrary characters using a standard keyboard then you need a better editor.
- chousuke 6y agoThe problem is not the editor, it's the human typing on the keyboard that sees , and thinks "that'll do". Using an obscure dedicated character is not going to happen.
- Darkphibre 6y agoI guess my point was a curiosity that these control codes had become obscure, when text format interchange is so prevalent throughout computing history.
- afiori 6y agoI do not want to learn new input methods for every program, I want a standardized compose-like functionality that allow me to write both diacritics and backticks ( a plus for the rest of unicode)
- db48x 6y agoAll operating systems have that too. Look up "Input Method Editor" in your favorite OS's documentation. See also dead keys, compose key, AltGr, etc, etc. If you think you can't edit a file because it has funny characters in it, then you're not trying hard enough.
- afiori 6y agoI know, still there is no reasonable way* to do both common european diacritics and backticks/tilde on windows without installing third-party software. * I find dead keys irritating beyond reason, so I do not count them as an option
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- sp332 6y agoIt wouldn't take that much effort to add a glyph in the editor for it?
- JdeBP 6y agoText editors that can put control characters into files, and indeed PC keyboards that have a [Control] key, have been around for decades, though. For example: With WordStar, SideKick, and Microsoft's EDIT, one just typed [Control]+[P] and then the control character. M. Darkphibre mentioned VIM, but really this isn't an idea that was ever limited to just VIM and emacs.