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by khimaros 716 days ago
tried this out a while back and ultimately settled on visidata instead https://github.com/saulpw/visidata
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Just tried it and Visidata is awesome. Just loading SQLite dbs is a killer feature with the TUI.
Visidata blows everything else in this category out of the water. I can open a table on a remote Postgres DB, use a regex filter to select the records I want, then do an outer join to a local CSV, all with just a few keystrokes.
Could you explain what made you prefer visidata over SCIM?
fast loading of massive datasets and built-in support for SQLite tables. i also found the interaction to be more intuitive, which is important for a tool i pick up sporadically.
That's really neat, I've been looking exactly for a spreadsheet TUI to browse and edit SQLite dbs. Cheers!
for one i work with GB large files and vd instantly opens them. SCIM it took a lot of painful seconds to open 14mb file
Probably some of the functionality showed off here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU , besides the handling of large amounts of data.