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One thing I wish Notepad++ could do is to create a table document instead of the regular text document. Kind of like excel. It doesn't have to have any fancy fo
by Aerroon 5y ago
One thing I wish Notepad++ could do is to create a table document instead of the regular text document. Kind of like excel. It doesn't have to have any fancy formulas or anything like that, simply a grid with writeable cells.
I love how lightweight it is and I like collecting notes in it. Data is better in a table rather than a text document though.
I haven't checked recently whether such a thing might exist, but last time I checked I couldn't find anything like it. I have no idea how easy or hard something like this would be to add. Then again, perhaps it's better without it.
- gainsurier 5y agoemeditor can help you.
- planb 5y ago> I love how lightweight it is Probably because it does not allow feature creep like adding support for a table format. I'm not trying to make fun of you, I'm just trying to state the obvious contradition that many software products face.
- agumonkey 5y agoLet's start officepad plus plus
- account-5 5y agoSounds like you would like TreeSheets. http://strlen.com/treesheets/ http://strlen.com/treesheets/
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoJust the screenshots on the home page have me curious. I’ll have to poke around with this after work today. Thank you for sharing the link.
- toss1 5y agoLooks quite interesting indeed! Thanks also to GP for sharing the link So good to find focused, lightweight software that doesn't squander gigabytes to load.
- badsectoracula 5y agoSome years ago i wrote this little tool for editing RFC 4180 CSV files, you may find it useful. http://runtimeterror.com/tools/table/ http://runtimeterror.com/tools/table/
- Aerroon 5y agoThanks!
- hyperman1 5y agoNot what you're asking, but... ctr-alt-selecting enables rectangular mouse, or whatever notepad++ calls it. Selecting a 0 columns and multiple rows, then typing | | pipes and spaces lets you quickly create grid-like structures in text format.
- hnarn 5y ago> Data is better in a table rather than a text document though. I feel like I'm missing something here. What situations are you ending up in where it's a problem that "data" is mixed up together with text? There's already multiple ways to express tables (or more correctly data structures) with text. You could write a Markdown table, as CSV, or a JSON object, or any of the other innumerable ways there are of structuring data "in text". I feel like any of these would be easier to use than mixing plaintext with some kind of table view.
- Aerroon 5y agoThe problem is formatting. If I put two tabs between each column in a text document but then on some row I need to write a sentence then my tabbed table in the text document is going to be harder to read. And no, those would absolutely not be easier to use when you're just writing down observations or keeping a log of something like blood pressure. Also, they're not really mixed together. I'm just thinking of a tab being a table in it, not mixing tables and text in one document.