Display errors, especially when scrolling

[jszym]

Hi,

Very cool project!

I'm experiencing some very bizarre errors in how a table is displayed. This (256mb) is the tab-delimited file in question (I decompressed it with gunzip before feeding to csvlens).

When I execute csvlens -d \t variant_summary.txt, this is what I see (on both kitty and GNOME terminal):

After pressing the down arrow 12 times, this is what it looks like:

And finally pressing the right arrow 3 times:

So, as you can see, there are a number of display issues here. Columns and rows aren't lining up properly, and the problem is exacerbated by scrolling.

Any ideas what is causing this?

[YS-L]

Hi! The correct way of specifying tab as the delimiter is:

csvlens -d '\t' variant_summary.txt

(note the quotes around \t).

There is also a shortcut for tab delimited files:

csvlens -t variant_summary.txt

I tested that -d auto works as well for this file.

Though I agree that the rendering on incorrect delimiter shouldn't be this strange. I will have to look into it further to understand why.

[jszym]

Thanks!

[YS-L]

That said, this seems like a common enough occurrence that is worth supporting. In the next release, csvlens -d \t ... should just work as you expected.