Nice! Once or twice I've used tad as a GUI to view csv files, but I usually use vi with nowrap or read the file in R. Now csvlens will be my default for csv files.
I like viewing most CSVs in vim. It can be a little annoying when the columns don’t line up well. Often I’ll replace all the commas with a tab, and then set the tab width to some very high value to make it all line up.
Of course, there exist plenty of CSV files that don’t follow any particular standard, so the trick doesn’t always work (if there are tabs in the data, if there’s some very wide field, or if there’s a comma in the data). Works good enough for the files I have, though.
Of course, there exist plenty of CSV files that don’t follow any particular standard, so the trick doesn’t always work (if there are tabs in the data, if there’s some very wide field, or if there’s a comma in the data). Works good enough for the files I have, though.