I love the Visidata paradigm.  Everything is a sheet.  (Visidata is a TUI interactive tool for tabular data)

You open a .tsv file, it's a sheet.
You open a .db file, it's a sheet.
You open a directory, it's a sheet.
You pipe in processes with 

It's extensible: put some Python in your .visidatarc file and you're done.

It's self-discoverable: you can inspect the current options, commands, bindings, and built-in guides:

It really feels like Emacs but for tabular data, with a more mainstream scripting language.

Give it a shot and tell me what you think: 

https://www.visidata.org

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I love the Visidata paradigm.  Everything is a sheet.  (Visidata is a TUI interactive tool for tabular data)

You open a .tsv file, it's a sheet.
You open a .db file, it's a sheet.
You open a directory, it's a sheet.
You pipe in processes with `ps -ax | vd -fixed`, it's a sheet.
Etc.

It's extensible: put some Python in your .visidatarc file and you're done.

It's self-discoverable: you can inspect the current options, commands, bindings, and built-in guides:

- Shift+O
- gzCtrl+h
- Ctrl+h to enter the help menu > Visidata feature guides

It really feels like Emacs but for tabular data, with a more mainstream scripting language.

Give it a shot and tell me what you think: https://www.visidata.org