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Paste tab-delimited data and format it as a Markdown table

Problem to solve

Make it easier to paste tab delimited data into a markdown table format.

Target audience

All users of Issues.

Further details

It's rather annoying to paste in data that comes from a spreadsheet or other tab-delimited source, and then have to manually hack around to make the format like markdown expects it to be to represent a table.

Proposal

Add some sort of simple integrated tool that one could activate, paste in this tab-delimited text (with the first row being the header row) and have the tool automatically replace the tab with pipes and insert the second row to offset the header row from the data.

Permissions and Security

n/a

Documentation

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What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Users would spend less time formatting markdown for what for some of us is a routine task of pasting tabular data into Issues and other markdown fields.

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Edited Mar 08, 2019 by Mark Fletcher
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