Rich data types in Blocks

[zachlloyd]

The proposed feature would allow for special rendering of structured block types (e.g. json, csv, markdown).

Exact implementation tbd. but I'm interested in whether something like this is appealing to the community.

Here's a sense of what it might look like:

Please upvote if you'd like this.

[elviskahoro]

From: japsu - Issue #214
Please add support for co-operating command line programs to show output as a two-way scrollable table.

Use cases that come to mind that would benefit from this:

Relational database clients such as psql (able to configure output separators in .psqlrc)
numpy, pandas and other Python libraries working with 2D arrays when used with the REPL (conforming output could probably be implemented via a Python module, need not be in numpy/pandas core; or leverage existing support designed for Jupyter Notebook etc. GUI tools)

[elviskahoro]

From: hunkybill via Discord: https://discord.com/channels/851854972600451112/954128565178339338/954140096096006224

Something amazing I would like is along the lines of me tailing some logs. OK. I do that all the time. But my efforts to find stuff is really limited to running a grep... so something that would be nice in Warp would be a way to have a block be "live, have focus, and be something I could setup a filter on"... so that what I am looking for comes through highlighted, but so does the rest of the data.

When I do this with a grep, basically I ONLY ever get what passes the grep filter.

[neongreen]

https://github.com/nushell/nushell could perhaps serve as inspiration

[elviskahoro]

Andres from nushell actually helped Warp get off the ground in the early days!

[exrhizo]

Hi, I have a similar use case

My docker logs look like this:

But then, not all the json lines have the same fields, so maybe I would need to pipe through a preprocessor to use this feature

Thank you for the great product!

[exrhizo]

oh, and I am often streaming the logs and often only care about the last X

[XiaofengXie16]

Any updates on this issue? I will even pay for this feature if it is added to warp.

[i-am-the-slime]

How much?

[phgoh]

might be worth re-exploring again, now that the codebase is open-source