Re: sort in .tsv file

On 18.11.25 13:38, Marc Chantreux wrote:

> And that makes the codebase bigger, more maintainance to do, more

> possible vulnerabilities.

>

> will you also implement awk ? I hope not and it doesn't stops me to have

> a plugin that make vim looks like a spreadsheet

>

> https://git.unistra.fr/mc/dot/-/blob/main/vim/pack/_/start/tsv/ftplugin/tsv.vim

>

> based on few lines of viml + an awk script

>

> https://git.unistra.fr/mc/dot/-/blob/main/vim/r/setvts.vim

> https://git.unistra.fr/mc/dot/-/blame/main/bin/tsveverything?ref_type=heads#L190

Now, if vimscript were mostly awk, then we'd have the ultimate editor. :-) (My spreadsheeting has not yet gone beyond including a line of awk in a data table file, then executing that with a Vim-mapped keystroke, or e.g. for rainfall, doing the awk monthly totalling in the shell-aliased editing command, so it runs on exit.)

> not to mention :so now support ranges \o/

>

> Actually I think vim does too much things and The *only* feature I miss

> today is a global PreSystem autocommand so you can setup environement

> variables.

>

>  au SystemPre {

>     $cf = expand("<cfile>")

>     $cF = expand("<cFILE>")

>     $cf = expand("<cword>")

>     $cF = expand("<cWORD>")

>  }

>

> so I have to prefix ! and system() calls myself.

>

> Again (because it was the goal of this mail): vim, in its actual

> philosophy, is super important! Thanks a lot for maintaining it.

Enthusiastically seconded. There's nothing else as good. All the folding methods are brilliant, for example. A .vimrc tweaked over a number of decades makes life so much easier. (My only remaining wish would be Posix ERE regexes - the existing mish-mash of alternatives in Vim seems a lot of work and confusion, without quite getting there. Admittedly, \v comes close. And one just shells out to awk, when serious, anyway.)

Erik

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