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Until I can type those ASCII separators on my keyboard, they’re not going to happen. That’s why CSV won out: the comma key already existed.
by colejohnson66 5y ago
Until I can type those ASCII separators on my keyboard, they’re not going to happen. That’s why CSV won out: the comma key already existed.
- skissane 5y agoFor terminal mode applications, unit separator is Control+Underscore and record separator is Control+Caret (Ctrl+Shift+6 on a US English keyboard). However, many terminal mode applications intercept those keys and expect them to be commands rather than data. Often there is some kind of quote key which you can press first. In readline and vim, the quote key is Ctrl+V. In emacs, it is Ctrl+Q instead. GUI applications are more variable. But vim and emacs still support their respective quote keys in GUI mode. And if you have to type this a lot, you can modify your vim/emacs/readline/etc configuration to remove the requirement for the quote key to be pressed first.