Editing tables within markdown and HTML?

[reagle]

I read that vd supports markdown, but it is not able to detect any of the tables in https://reagle.org/joseph/2016/min-eg/test-tables.md. When I convert that to HTML, https://reagle.org/joseph/2016/min-eg/test-tables.html, it can load the tables but not edit them. I know I could save copy, edit, and save them elsewhere, but wouldn't that drop any other HTML?

1. What kind of markdown (and tables) can vd read?
2. Can vd edit embedded tables within their documents?

[anjakefala]

1. VisiData can save markdown tables! It cannot yet load them; no one has championed that feature. The save as markdown feature was one I requested for maintaining tables like https://visidata.org/docs/formats. =)

VisiData uses lxml to parse html tables with a <table> tag. There are known gaps of support: #1308 , #1346.

[reagle]

Okay, I can see that being able to edit tables within markdown (while retaining non-table content on save) is not possible.