From: Joost <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Supported/Bundled CSV support?
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:43:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14ace41e-daa3-4d82-bdc0-c5db179f9250@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh780cgn0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, at 23:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[csv-mode]
> Don't know about Melpa, but in (Non)GNU ELPA, I can only find one such
> package and it dates back to Dec 2021.
Speaking of which, I recently had an occasion for using this package and I was somewhat surprised that I did not find a way to specify the field separator on a per-file (or per-buffer) basis. The file I wanted to open used `;` as separator, and some of the fields hat commas in them. Adding `;` to `csv-separators` caused Emacs to recognize *both* `;` and `,` as field separators, meaning that the file wasn't displayed correctly.
I needed to set `csv-separators` to `(";")` to get Emacs to handle the file correctly. But if I make that permatent, I wouldn't be able to open any CSV files with commas as separators anymore.
Did I miss something, or is this indeed how `csv-mode` works? If so, I'm inclined to create a bug report, cause I reckon few (in any) CSV files use more than one separator character.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-16 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-14 22:15 Supported/Bundled CSV support? T.V Raman
2022-03-14 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-15 7:36 ` Ergus
2022-03-15 14:05 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-15 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-15 15:27 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-16 13:43 ` Joost [this message]
2022-03-16 14:46 ` T.V Raman
2022-03-16 18:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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