On 16 September 2011 03:31, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is one of those things I find spreadsheets actually useful for. Do a COPY or/copy, in CSV format from the table and import it into a spreadsheet. I find the
grid layout of a spreadsheet very useful in picking out misplaced fields.
Now that you mention it, it would probably be useful to have some kind of syntax highlighting for different white-space characters (for example, a background-color and a character; 'S' for space, 'T' for tab, 'C' for CR, 'L' for LF) for editors such as Vim and emacs.
It's not even a big step up from there to highlight odd and even columns in tab-delimited, csv, etc. data with a different background-color or some-such.
Perhaps this is what I described above: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_CSV_files (for Vim, not emacs)
