This release has about 6 months of development in it, including many bugfixes, improvements, and a few experimental features. Here are the highlights:
- new confirm dialog window (press
y
to accept; Enter no longer required) - new command
addcol-window
bound tow
to create a new column with a list of values "around" the current row - new
formatter
attribute on column (andoptions.disp_formatter
) to set the format for both display and text saving. Can begeneric
,python
,json
(and it's also extensible) - support for standard paths for config file and support dirs (XDG and otherwise)
- new loaders for Apache Arrow (IPC and streaming) and parquet formats
- browse remote .zip URLs and extract files from them without downloading the whole archive
- by popular demand, we've decided to invert the default scroll wheel direction! If you liked how it was before, you can set
options.scroll_incr = 3
- and a couple things to make it easier for Windows users
There's a lot to love in this release of VisiData; the above is only a partial list. See the official CHANGELOG for more details.