Welcome to VisiData’s documentation!

Contents:

• Home
  • Getting Started
    • Install VisiData
      • from pypi (stable branch)
      • or clone from git
      • Dependencies
    • Run VisiData
    • License
• User Guide
  • Basic Movement and Essential Commands
  • Advanced movement
    • Scrolling
  • Arranging Columns
    • Column Types
    • Creating new columns
  • Searching/Selecting/Deleting rows
  • Modifying data
  • Special Sheets
    • Metasheets
  • Glossary
• VisiData Tour
• VisiData Architecture for Developers
  • One project, two licenses
  • Columns
    • name and other properties
    • Getter and setter
      • Getter
      • Setter
      • Built-in methods for column-creation
  • Commands
    • Syntax
    • Example
    • What can be done with commands
  • Extending VisiData
    • Outline of syntax
      • Example
    • Custom VisiData applications
  • Other functionality
    • Status bar
    • Errors and debugging
    • Hooks
    • Adding a new data source
      • Example
    • Custom options
    • The reload() method
    • The @async decorator
    • Curses line-editing: editText
    • Regular expressions (RegEx)
    • Drawing
    • Colorizing
    • Theme colors and characters
    • Making VisiData apps
    • Making VisiData sources
  • Common variables
  • Unresolved hacks
    • chooseOne
    • Adding properties to vd in extensions
    • Globals
    • Deviations from PEP8
• The Screen for Developers
  • Screen layout and corresponding objects in code
  • The screen in Curses
    • Terminal Window Size
    • Rows
    • Columns
      • Column Visibility
      • Absolute and Visible Column Indexes
      • Key Columns
    • Cells, Values, Types, and Formatting
• Documentation
  • Python Docstrings
  • reStructuredText
  • Sphinx
  • Read the Docs
• Contributing
  • Branch structure
• Credits
  • Inspirations and Related Work

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page