On: Consider Using CSV

[elcritch]

Well the obvious solution would be ASCII 0x1D (Group Separator)! Accept, no one actually uses those ASCII characters. Kind of bums me out that UNIX basically skipped out on them.

[hermitcrab → elcritch]

I agree. Lots of discussion related to proposing that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31220841

[kevinmgranger → elcritch]

It's not a separator character, but at least vim and emacs acknowledge the page feed character. A pittance, I suppose.

[lelanthran → kevinmgranger]

> It's not a separator character,

Isn't it? I thought all the separator characters (0x1e, 0x1f, 0x1c) were specifically for delimiting records, fields and units.

What are they for?

[civopsec → lelanthran]

They’re saying that “page feed character” (I’m guessing form feed) is acknowledged by Emacs, in contrast to those separator characters.

I think it’s used to mark sections in Emacs Lisp code.