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I've been intending to create a lightweight csv viewer for some time now and I was even learning Qt for that purpose, so I will definitely be checking this out. On windows, I use Nirsoft's csvfileview to rapidly review my files but on Linux, I haven't found anything that loads as rapidly and without friction.

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> I've been intending to create a lightweight CSV viewer for some time now and I was even learning Qt for that purpose, so I will definitely be checking this out.

> ... but on Linux, I haven't found anything that loads as rapidly and without friction

As for GUI-based CSV editor projects, I may highly recommend you also take a look mtCellEdit (C++/Qt[0]) and Tabulator (C++/Qt[1] & Python/Qt[2]) apps.

Both projects are cross-platform & FLOSS (free and open-source software), so available for Linux, macOS, Windows, etc.

FTR, mtCellEdit has a lot of functions especially useful for spreadsheet/CSV data analyzing.[3,4]

[0] https://github.com/matyler/mtCellEdit

[1] https://github.com/notnypical/tabulator-qt

[2] https://github.com/notnypical/tabulator-qtpy

[3] https://doc.marktyler.org/mtcelledit/en_GB/chap_00.html

[4] http://web.archive.org/web/20190913184255/http://marktyler.b...

I will try all of them. Previously, I've tried Tad [1] which is good but I'd like something lighter and faster (ie. not electron based) and also visidata [2] which is terminal based but sometimes I just want to see my data in a gui.

[1] https://www.tadviewer.com [2] https://www.tadviewer.com

JFTR, No need to add two references to same link; one reference link would be enough ;)

Correct [2], as it is actually the same as [1].

sorry, the second link should have been [2] https://www.visidata.org/

Am I right that tabulator-qt and tabulator-qtpy are still under development since they don't seem to load csv files yet? But they certainly look like the type of specialised viewer that I have been looking for.

> Am I right that tabulator-qt and tabulator-qtpy

Ask its developer via issues tracker on GitHub.

I use sqlitebrowser for that. Pretty handy if you know SQL.

It's not a native application, but datasette (https://datasette.io/) can get you pretty far thanks to the power of SQL

I am not sure if I recommend this tool as it’s a paid tool and not Linux but it’s gotten me out of a lot of tricky multi GB csv files in the past. (Windows and win server only)

http://www.delimitware.com/

Of particular note is this set of extraction features which is where I spend a lot of time http://www.delimitware.com/help.html#_File_Extract_Dialog

Nirsoft's csvfileview is neat but pretty basic. For advanced filtering and multiple file loading check out my forever free CSViewer (https://csviewer.com).

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