CSVEdit Changelog

What's new in CSVEdit 2.4

Nov 27, 2014
  • New option in preferences to set default view settings for grid and line number for new documents.
  • Document view settings for grid and line numbers are saved when document is saved.
  • Double quote settings are initialized from the guessed file attributes.
  • When adding a new column, it will be inserted after the currently selected cell (if there is one).
  • Improved performance when loading large files.
  • Rapid scrolling performance improved.

New in CSVEdit 2.3 (Oct 2, 2014)

  • when the columns in a CSV file were edited the updated number of columns of wasn't saved in the metadata causing problem when the file was reopened.
  • as column headings are added or removed, try to be intelligent about saving them as part of the CSV file appropriately
  • added a document icon

New in CSVEdit 2.2 (Sep 19, 2014)

  • When the user typed in the number of columns, sometimes that was being ignored.
  • Improve the CSV guessing:
  • in files with few fields, the field separator was being guessed as a blank
  • multi-line fields could get get confused about the comment character

New in CSVEdit 2.1 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • Add additional options to support quoting only empty fields in output and quoting all fields.
  • Use a different file saving technique to save UTF-8 with a BOM if required (NSString's -dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion: if you must know).

New in CSVEdit 2.0 (Aug 25, 2014)

  • When a CSV file is saved, the options are saved in the file's metadata so that when it's reopened it doesn't requery for the file's csv settings. That has been infuriating.
  • The CSV file can be reloaded after settings have been changed using the "Reload" menu item or toolbar item.
  • Disable autosave – it's far too aggressive and will overwrite the user's file unexpectedly, even though it's possible to revert.
  • The CSV options panel now includes a preview of the file to make getting the options set easier.
  • Several bug fixes.

New in CSVEdit 1.1.8 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • Row heights were not recalculated when a user entered a field containing a newline
  • Printing was hanging

New in CSVEdit 1.1.7 (May 29, 2014)

  • Fixed crash for some users which prevented them opening files
  • Handle CSV files with multi-line fields
  • Use user's locale to prime some of the CSV sniffer guesses
  • CSVEdit requires Mac OS X 10.7+

New in CSVEdit 1.1.6 (May 20, 2014)

  • Menu item to revise CSV options so that they can be changed more easily
  • Menu items like “show grid” and “show row numbers” track the currently open document
  • Changes to CSV options are now tracked in the undo history
  • Row numbers are now able to be shown
  • Edit column headings
  • Changes during CSV loading now show as having changed the document
  • Some German translations in the toolbar were missing
  • Convert to ARC

New in CSVEdit 1.1.5 (May 6, 2014)

  • Improve printed output appearance and to span pages better.
  • Improve CSV sniffing to guess strange file formats better.
  • Fix bug when processing files with MS-double quote quoting.
  • Support going full-screen.
  • Fix minor memory leaks.
  • Support for auto save.
  • Updated icon.

New in CSVEdit 1.1.4 (Jul 7, 2012)

  • Sometimes files couldn't be opened because the encoding wasn't recognised. The app now falls back to trying some standard encodings which works well.
  • Enabled application sandboxing.
  • Add support for printing (Alex Nonnemacher)

New in CSVEdit 1.1.3 (May 9, 2012)

  • Fix a problem which stopped columns being deleted. It's still tricky to select a column, you need to cmd-click in the column header and all the rows in the column will be selected.

New in CSVEdit 1.1.2 (Apr 28, 2012)

  • Tim Kersten reported that files weren't being saved when values were deleted (set to an empty string). Fixed.
  • Values weren't being updated internally when updated from the table.
  • When the first field on a line was changed to a comment character, it wasn't quoted when it was written out and would be ignored when read in.
  • Allow editing of .tsv files.
  • Minor change to menu layout.

New in CSVEdit 1.1.1 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • Corrections to German spelling.

New in CSVEdit 1.1 (Jan 26, 2012)

  • Add German localisation
  • Turn on and off grid lines
  • Cut and paste of rows
  • Allow user to specify number of columns in input
  • Dramatically improved guessing of CSV file attributes
  • Add ability to hide rows & columns
  • Document summary display working