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"autoview", tables, new data formats... #1371

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It seems Elvish has a rather simlistic data types and thus also rather "raw" pretty printing.

Here I'd like to ask for opinions on something like Nushell does - namely it automatically inserts | autoview (interactive pretty printing with scrollbars, graphics support etc.) if there is no sink at the end of a pipeline. Moreover Nushell supports arbitrarily nested data types incl. nested tables of plenty of other data types.

I'd like to see this richer set of data types along with advanced "pretty printing" in Elvish. Any plans for that?

Somewhat related to pretty printing: #1149 (comment)

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