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According to spec it's nearly impossible to correctly edit files in this format by hand.
by bvrmn 1y ago
According to spec it's nearly impossible to correctly edit files in this format by hand.
- mkl 1y agoHow so? All you need is a text editor that preserves tabs.
- bvrmn 1y ago1. It's quite easy to miss a tab and use only `|`. 2. Generated TPSV would look like an unreadable hard to edit mess. I doubt any tool would calculate max column length to adjust tab count for all cells. It basically kills any streaming.
- mkl 1y agoYou have a very strange definition of "nearly impossible". > 1. It's quite easy to miss a tab and use only `|`. Any format is hard to edit manually if you don't follow the requirements of the format (which are very simple in this case). > 2. Generated TPSV would look like an unreadable hard to edit mess. CSVs are much less readable than this, but still entirely possible to edit.
- bvrmn 1y agoMy wording is bad, I agree. Original thought was: complicated edit makes TPSV adoption as nearly impossible.