> Maybe a nice thing to have would be to get the terminal emulator to treat the field and record separator in a special way. So the programs all output fs and rs, and the terminal emulator uses these characters to layout the data in a tabular way.
There's no terminal that does this, right? On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 3:24 AM, Raphaël Proust <s...@bnwr.net> wrote: > Hello, > > On 2018-05-22 00:38, Connor Lane Smith wrote: >> On 21 May 2018 at 17:12, Adrian Grigore <adrian.emil.grig...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I'm having problems compiling usul: >> >> This is a surprise. Where did you get usul from? > > I sent the copy. I use usul regularly so I still have the whole repo > locally. > > >> >> I have been wondering lately about resurrecting usul, since 'tabular >> munging' with Unix utilities without the ability to set $FS and $RS >> can be really unpleasant, and I've had to do quite a bit of it >> recently. >> >> I did also write a program to complement usul which performs elastic >> tabbing on its input, the idea being that you end up with a nice >> tabular view in your terminal. I think ideally you might want 'real' >> terminal support for it though, as when printing to the tty you either >> need to buffer a lot of data (i.e. until a line with no FS), or you >> need to do crazy tty-rewriting ANSI escapes, which it did support but >> is a massive hack. > > In what way is the elastic tabbing different from what Plan9's mc(1)? > > > Ciao, > -- Raphaël > -- Thanks, Adi
