Visidata: When there is a lot of content in a cell, I want to view it, how can I view it all?

[joytianya]

When there is a lot of content in a cell, I want to view it, how can I view it all?、
Can you open the details with a simple enter or a simple combination

[ajkerrigan]

Hiya @joytianya - there are a couple ways to open the details of a big cell. One of these may cover what you're looking for:

• Use z+ENTER to open the cell in a new dedicated sheet
• Use e to begin editing the cell in-line, then ^O while editing to open your default external editor ($EDITOR)

Sometimes I also like to quickly open a cell in my default system pager (less by default). In case that sounds like a useful option for you, I wrote a small plugin here to set that up and bind it to z+^O.

[anjakefala]

Does anyone (@ajkerrigan included!) have any other ideas for viewing the full content of a cell? =) I can think of 2-3 other methods.

Thanks for asking @joytianya! This is a great question, and we are going to compile the answers into a FAQ.

[ajkerrigan]

Does anyone (@ajkerrigan included!) have any other ideas for viewing the full content of a cell? =) I can think of 2-3 other methods.

Ha, don't make us beg! I can't think of any other ones offhand, I'm curious about your 2-3 though :). (I'm assuming things like horizontal scrolling or using v to turn on wrapping don't count for this question, though they're still helpful in some cases.)

[anjakefala]

You got one! Multi-row definitely counts. =)

[geekscrapy]

zY, opens sublime, ctrl+v 😅

[frosencrantz]

view-cell ? similar to open-cell which is z + Enter

I guess you could also split the cell value. But I doubt this one is on the list...

I'd like to know, too. :)

[anjakefala]

The final one is changing the width of the column with _ or through the Columns sheet =)

[saulpw]

There's also zh zj zk zl now in 2.0, to change the offset with a column's cells, so you can "scroll" through contents, if the first cell width/height is not differentiating enough.