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saulpw
[curcol] Allow curcol alias for current col to be available in more places.
In https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/659 a wish was granted adding the curcol alias to addcol-expr. Thank you!
This request is:
Allow the alias to be used in any other commands that reference column names, such as all the expr commands and addcol-sh.
😞 Oh no!
saulpw@ What chance does this have getting into VisiData?
Wondering why you decided to move from open to MK’d. Thanks for keeping it open for as long as you did. I do think this is one of those features that really should be added. I know I would find very useful, and it would make all the expression/shell commands more consistent.
@frosencrantz It was the realization that I wasn't going to be able to get around to it any time soon, and I wanted to clean up some issues (more MK's are probably coming in a couple weeks). But interestingly I think the big reason was that it felt too big, and if I thought it was just adding it to addcol-sh it might be more likely to happen. So maybe this should stay closed and #1031 could be re-opened, esp if it would be quite useful for other people too.
Thanks for the reply, @saulpw. Re-opening #1031 is a reasonable next step. I believe there will be more interest over time to implement this feature, as users are able to use curcol in more places.