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Man.. TV is such a good name for a visualiser tool that it'd be excellent if it could pretty-print any content given to it.

Does your framework support the idea of pre-parsing the file's content and selecting an appropriate renderer, or is it fairly tied to CSVs?

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I would need more details on what you mean by "pre-parsing". It works with any deliminator, it could be comma-separated, pipe-separated, etc.

Doesn't need to be pre-parsed. Perhaps give the filename to the utility instead of content via stdin. Then filename gives a hint. If there is none, run "file filename" (via library) beforehand.

I actually like `tidy` better and honestly would rather have `cat a.csv | tidy ...`. But it's probably already a thing.

Nice idea. I might actually work on this myself

You don't have to make the alias `tv`. Feel free to make your alias tidy='tidy-viewer'.

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