csview

The unbreakable CSV editor "CSView"

<English> / <Japanese>

CSView is the CSV editor that runs on the terminal of Linux and Windows. Here are some key features:

• Keybinding: vi-like on moving cursor and Emacs-like on editing cell
• It reads the data from both file and standard-input
• Modified cells are displayed with underline
  • With one key u, original value before modifying can be restored
• Non-user-modified cells retain their original values
  • Enclosing double quotations or not of the cell value that contains neither commas nor line breaks
  • LF or CRLF for line breaks
  • BOM of the beginning of files
  • The representation before decoding double quotations, encoding, field and record sperators and so on are displayed on the bottom line
• CSView supports the following encodings:
  • UTF8 (default)
  • UTF16
  • Current codepage on Windows (automatically detected)
  • Encodings specified by the IANA registry (-iana NAME)

Install

Manual Installation

Download the binary package from Releases and extract the executable.

Use "go install"

env GOEXPERIMENT=rangefunc go install github.com/hymkor/csview@latest

Use scoop-installer

scoop install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hymkor/csview/master/csview.json

or

scoop bucket add hymkor https://github.com/hymkor/scoop-bucket
scoop install csview

Usage

$ csview {options} FILENAME(...)

or

$ cat FILENAME | csview {options}

Options

• -h int - the number of fixed header lines
• -c - use Comma as field-separator (default when suffix is .csv)
• -t - use TAB as field-separator (default when suffix is not .csv)
• -iana string - IANA-registered-name to decode/encode NonUTF8 text

Key-binding

• Move Cursor
  • h,Ctrl-B,←,Shift-TAB (move cursor left)
  • j,Ctrl-N,↓,Enter (move cursor down)
  • k,Ctrl-P,↑ (move cursor up)
  • l,Ctrl-F,←,TAB (move cursor right)
  • < (move the beginning of file)
  • >,G (move the end of file)
  • 0,^,Ctrl-A (move the beginning of the current line)
  • $,Ctrl-E (move the end of the current line)
• Search
  • / (search forward)
  • ? (search backward)
  • n (search next)
  • N (search next reverse)
• Edit
  • i (insert a new cell before the current one)
  • a (append a new cell after the current one)
  • r (replace the current cell)
  • d,x (delete the current cell)
  • w (write to a file or STDOUT('-'))
  • o (append a new line after the current one)
  • O (insert a new line before the current one)
  • D (delete the current line)
  • " (enclose or remove double quotations if possible)
  • u (restore the original value of the current cell)
  • y (copy the value of the current cell to kill-buffer)
  • p (paste the value of kill-buffer to the current cell)
• Repaint: Ctrl-L
• Quit: q or ESC

Readline with SKK[^SKK]

When the environment variable GOREADLINESKK is defined, go-readline-skk is used.

• Windows
  • set GOREADLINESKK=SYSTEMJISYOPATH1;SYSTEMJISYOPATH2...;user=USERJISYOPATH
  • (example) set GOREADLINESKK=~/Share/Etc/SKK-JISYO.L;~/Share/Etc/SKK-JISYO.emoji;user=~/.go-skk-jisyo
• Linux
  • export GOREADLINE=SYSTEMJISYOPATH1:SYSTEMJISYOPATH2...:user=USERJISYOPATH

[^SKK]: Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program. One of the Japanese input method editor.

Release Note

• English
• Japanese