diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f30726c5d..6c129c4d2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
 *~
 *.mo
 *\#
+.*.swp
 samples
 unihan.db
diff --git a/anki/importing/csvfile.py b/anki/importing/csvfile.py
index 1571a8650..2ed554d1a 100644
--- a/anki/importing/csvfile.py
+++ b/anki/importing/csvfile.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class TextImporter(Importer):
                 info=_("File is not encoded in UTF-8."))
         self.dialect = None
         sniffer = csv.Sniffer()
-        delims = [',', '\t', ';', ':']
+        delims = [',', '\t', ';', ':', '=']
         if not self.delimiter:
             try:
                 self.dialect = sniffer.sniff("\n".join(self.data[:10]),
@@ -128,5 +128,5 @@ class TextImporter(Importer):
 
     def cardFromFields(self, fields):
         card = ForeignCard()
-        card.fields.extend(fields)
+        card.fields.extend([x.strip() for x in fields])
         return card