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From: "Simen Heggestøyl" <simenheg@runbox.com>
To: Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: csv-mode can’t guess separator when it’s the unit separator #x1f
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 08:55:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttih3y5t.fsf@runbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bk4qt7l9.fsf@posteo.de> (Titus von der Malsburg's message of "Tue, 28 May 2024 12:53:32 +0000")

Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I’m using the unit separator ASCII #x1f in “csv” files, because that’s more robust than using comma or tab (which may both be used as part of the data, which creates ambiguity).  The unit separator was created precisely for this purpose.
>
> Since various characters are conventionally used as separators, csv-mode has a convenient function for guessing the separator.  (It’s typically, the one character which has the same number of appearances on all lines of the file.)  Unfortunately, csv-mode currently does not consider the unit separator as a candidate when guessing.  Below is a patch that fixes that.  Could someone please apply this patch?  This list is specified as the maintainer in the source file.
>
> Thank you.
>
>   Titus

Thanks Titus, I've applied the patch.

-- Simen



      reply	other threads:[~2024-05-29  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-28 12:53 csv-mode can’t guess separator when it’s the unit separator #x1f Titus von der Malsburg
2024-05-29  6:55 ` Simen Heggestøyl [this message]

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