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> it wouldn't be easy to create/edit manually I mean, you'd have to be using a pretty terrible tool for it not being able to handle that, and I suspect if such
by cbsmith 5y ago
> it wouldn't be easy to create/edit manually
I mean, you'd have to be using a pretty terrible tool for it not being able to handle that, and I suspect if such an approach were to become prevalent, that tool would either fix the glitch or become largely unused.
- hermitcrab 5y agoAre there any editors that let you insert a Unit separator character as easily as a comma?
- cbsmith 5y agoAll of the programmable ones? ;-)
- hermitcrab 5y agoSo that's a no then. ;0P
- cbsmith 5y ago? Quite the contrary. It's more, "all the ones that any craftsman should be using".
- lanstin 5y agoA lot of excels and csvs are made by people other than programming crafters.
- scbrg 5y agoAs with pretty much everything else computing, the world suffers because Microsoft has been dumping terrible tools on it for decades, and people just take their garbage as the way things have to be.
- cbsmith 5y agoExcel has its advantages, but it is funny the tools people choose to work with. The number of times Access would make more sense...
- cbsmith 5y agoYes indeed. It often means they do extra work because they're using the wrong tools. But you gotta admit that excel is a pretty terrible tool to hand edit a CSV with... ;-)