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Feature request: delimiter detection

Open maxharlow opened this issue 10 years ago • 4 comments

Would be nice not needing to specify -d, each time.

maxharlow avatar Feb 17 '15 17:02 maxharlow

+1 for this. You're absolutely right. I know it's annoying.

harelba avatar Feb 18 '15 16:02 harelba

Obviously, I will take a look at it to see how this can be done :)

harelba avatar Feb 18 '15 16:02 harelba

I want to point out that there is a conflict between the "don't be smart" predictable behaviour of unix tools and the "do what I mean" approach. I don't think we should conflate them and sacrifice one for the other, because then we wouldn't get the advantage of either. E.g. a DWIM tool could be a simple wrapper around q which calls it with the "right" parameters. In this way the fuzzy logic parts would also be clearly separated.

The same comment applies for the header detection proposition.

bitti avatar Feb 18 '15 17:02 bitti

+1. Nice idea. This q tool is already a must-have, but this feature would be awesome!

llagerlof avatar Dec 14 '15 17:12 llagerlof