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dhruvasagar
vim-table-mode
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dhruvasagar / vim-table-mode

vim-table-mode

VIM Table Mode for instant table creation.

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VIM Table Mode for instant table creation.

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HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-09-20 00:39:03 UTC to 2024-01-06 17:30:07 UTC.

012013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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franek·Jan 6, 2024
While not built around CSV, two terminal spreadsheet tools I have successfully used in the past are sc-im and the (neo)vim plugin vim-table-mode: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/ https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode Back then I stopped using sc-im because it could not import/export XLSX, if I remember correctly. Apparently it can today! vim-table-mode always felt a little fragile and I don't want to be bound to vim anymore. That said, it still feels like a small miracle to me to have functional spreadsheet formulas inside markdown documents – calculation and typesetting all in one place.
In Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV
ynac·Feb 9, 2022
While being an almost daily user of MonoDraw, I utilize Valery Kocubinsky's Table Editor package for Sublime at least a dozen or more times every day. All my daily habit, scheduling, trackers, and labor is in some sort of table. Thank you, Valery! It isn't maintained but 90% of the features work fine. The project was picked up and is current on Atom. Grabbing boxes for commenting is within scope of Table Editor but again, Monodraw offers some great flexibility. If you're working with code that's getting printed in a newsletter, drop it in a Monodraw box (remove border) and you can add call-outs on either or both sides of the code and paste it all in the newsletter. Looks nifty, and keeps the aesthetic consistent. Sublime Table Editor ... https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Table%20Editor Atom Table Editor ...... https://atom.i
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o/packages/table-editor Vim .................... https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode
In ASCII art for semantic code commenting
Jach·Jun 8, 2021
Sure, one executable is nice, that might be enough of a payoff for some people to overlook the rest. I think you may be underestimating the amount of choice that's out there though. For documentation alone there's countless options that don't require a centralized online thing. Three I'd use over Fossil again are 1) simple project doc/ folder with .md files inside (which you can render locally to look just like github with https://github.com/joeyespo/grip) 2) Doxygen or a language-specific equivalent if it's better 3) libreoffice docs stored either in the same repo or another one (perhaps a submodule). For project management I'm less familiar with the options out there but I'd be surprised if there was nothing that gives a really stellar offline experience. I'd give a preemptive win to Fossil on the narrow aspect that your issue tracking
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changes can be synced and merged automatically with a collaborative server when you come back online, whereas if you stood up your own instance of Trac for instance I'm not sure if they have any support for syncing. If you're working by yourself, though, then there's no problem, Trac and many others work just like Fossil and stand up a local server (or are dedicated standalone programs) and work the same whether you're offline or online. But when I'm working solo I prefer low-tech over anything that resembles Jira (and I don't even really dislike Jira) -- I've played with https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue as another offline/off-platform option but in my most recent ongoing solo project I'm quite happy with a super low-tech issues text file that has entries like (easy to make with https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode) +--------------+ | Add thing | +==============+ | Done whens / | | other info | +--------------+ and when I'm closing one I just move it to the issues-closed file as part of the closing commit. I might give it an identifier if I need to reference it in the code/over multiple commits.
In Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file
slgeorge·Jun 18, 2016
For standard RST tables I use vim-table-mode (https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode) which is fantastic as it automates RST or markdown tables. There are some other RST table types: a. List table: Pretty simple to use (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html...) b. CSV table Supposed to be used for CSV imports I guess but I've never used it (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html...)
In ReStructuredText vs. Markdown for documentation

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