Feature Requests

• Replace nested value column w/expression of value like extended column does now.

• HTML tables w/row or column span

• HTML smarter table naming

  • if there is a leading header

• Return HTML doc from html loader

• Return list items from HTML

• Grid HTML as table

• HTML as bad of links

• Markdown viewer

• jq paths for values in json

• jq commands to extract CSV

• Smart expand

  • If expansaion is too much stop
    • so try 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
    • sometimes json can be deep

• LOG all exceptions

  • Fail for all exxceptions
  • Could be used for tests

• Ability to specify alternate program to do web requests

  • curl or httpie

• handle wttr.in and similar websites

• simplify plugin on Frequence Table

  • Common prefix
  • range

• LESSOPEN For Visidata

• z; STDERR col should be hidden if empty

• z; if not columns are provided then ask

• Save/load history for visidata input()

• Save column of text w/o header

• save as text

• Preview window like the fzf preview window

  • Run a command with output in split screen

• Smartcase search

  • all lowercase pattern is case-insensitive
  • has uppercase pattern is case-sensite

• Shift Column up or down by N

• Tag support

• Expand column into a Column table, which let's you edit what you want

  So you could pick a subset of from the expanding column If you wanted to do this for multiple columns start from the Column table

  Edit meands: select rows (i.e. expand cols) delete rows

• FreqTable -- Direct control over bucketing, reshape with a command

• Copy options when copying a table

• Relative dates like github (3 hours ago, 3 years ago, 2 hours ago)

• ColumnTable should should show the type of the column

• set type w/FreqTable

  • column expand

• Handle hierarchical rows

  • Children with single parent, examples:

    • ps output
    • filesystem/directory listing
    • xml/html document
    • visidata tables as you process, source --> is parent table

  • visual cues like with pstree or tree or tig

  • folding.

Bugs

• Edit 'Frozen' Cell Broken

  • Visidata let's you start edit, but won't

• vdtabulate.py changes floats/long ints to scientific notation

• How does joining two tables work? From sheets what does top 2 mean?

• FIXED FreqTable w/binning dates

  • do ints work?

• Cmdlog not working with json

  • more general question about open sheet at start

• Undo of expand column can fail

  • columns remain

• Json cmdlog issues?

• Type issues:

  • sets just don't show anything
    • would expect one row per value
  • when expanding a column of sets and expand-col each value has a column, Null if not in set, value as cell value if in set.
  • namedtuple
    • expand fails

Plugin Ideas:

• Word/lines splitter for text value columns

  • splits a column into unique words/lines creates a FreqTable
    • selecting rows in the FreqTable brings you back to original rows
  • Use patterns to delete some words
  • automatically determine common prefix/suffix and strip
    • option to save stripped value to column

• Sort by reverse value

• Checksum by row over selected columns

  • helpful to find duplicates
  • does vddedup help with this?

• Run comm on two tables

  • pick two tables
  • compare primary cols
  • result: table with Left/Right/Common