This is a bit silly. Any modern text editor (whether vim or VSCode or BBEdit or Notepad++ or whatever) is capable of displaying control characters and of copy/pasting them. Keyboard shortcuts for inserting any characters whatsoever are easy to add. And even with CSV files, if you’re editing them by hand rather than manipulating them with code, you’re probably doing it wrong.
All of this is easy (use the proper editor, configure it for this particular weirdass situation, do something other than the thing you want to do, etc) in a way that’s exactly analogous to ‘you can spin up your own dropbox over the weekend with ftp and rsync’.
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This is a bit silly. Any modern text editor (whether vim or VSCode or BBEdit or Notepad++ or whatever) is capable of displaying control characters and of copy/pasting them. Keyboard shortcuts for inserting any characters whatsoever are easy to add. And even with CSV files, if you’re editing them by hand rather than manipulating them with code, you’re probably doing it wrong.
All of this is easy (use the proper editor, configure it for this particular weirdass situation, do something other than the thing you want to do, etc) in a way that’s exactly analogous to ‘you can spin up your own dropbox over the weekend with ftp and rsync’.