shorter modded sheet names, with symbols ꜄ᵀ📑

[midichef]

After selecting rows to a new sheet with ", the sheet suffix _selected_ref is too long, so I use the symbol ꜄. And for transpose I use ᵀ, and dup-rows adds 📑. Here's what they look like in action. The new versions are in orange, the standard sheet names are above them in blue:

The number after ꜄ is the number of selected rows. That helps me distinguish different sheets made by ".

Here's the code to add to your .visidatarc to try it:

# alternate symbols for dup-selected:  ⭆ ꜄ ꜅ ⛶ ⊃ ⎇ ≥ ≧ ≽ ⋺ ⚞ ⭃ ⭄ ⺕ ョ 🫣
Sheet.addCommand('"', 'dup-selected', 'sym="꜄"; vs=copy(sheet); vs.name += f"{sym}{len(selectedRows)}"; vs.reload=lambda vs=vs,rows=selectedRows: setattr(vs, "rows", list(rows)); vd.push(vs)', 'open a duplicate sheet with only the selected rows')
# transpose symbols:  ᵀ ⮵ ↵
Sheet.addCommand('T', 'transpose', 'sym="ᵀ"; vd.push(TransposeSheet(name+sym, source=sheet))', 'open new sheet with rows and columns transposed')
Sheet.addCommand('g"', 'dup-rows', 'sym="📑"; vs=copy(sheet); vs.name+=sym; vs.rows=list(rows); status("copied "+sheet.name); vs.select(selectedRows); vd.push(vs)', 'open a duplicate sheet with all rows')

[frosencrantz]

@midichef thank you for sharing this. This looks very helpful. Plus, I really like you sharing Unicode characters that you think are good options. It would be useful if there was a good directory of these that look good in terminal emulator. Like there was a great discussion in #1807. I feel like it can be difficult to find good ones that have great font support. I've wonder if things like combining characters also would be helpful. This is worthy of a longer discussion...

For a while I have this hazy thought it would be useful to have something like a "namer" function, you would give some context for what you are naming, and it could generate the name, the caller might provide a default. There are already a lot of defaults, but as your example show you need to update all these different places. To me this namer would be useful for everywhere we create a new name, it might even rename the original, like you did with the replace column code you wrote.

There was an earlier discussion on navigating sheets more in #1656. I mentioned the naming class in #1656 (comment). I like how you've changed the naming to be the length of the sheet, that is more helpful that just _selectedref. There is not just one solution for naming, it would be useful as the user to have more control over naming to preferences that are useful to each user. You sharing this makes it clearer how others could do this in their configuration.

EDIT: Added 3rd paragraph.