SES: Simple Emacs Spreadsheet

#1

Post by yitchelle » Sat, Aug 15, 2015, 10:23 PM UTC

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#2

Post by clessg » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 12:17 AM UTC

Cool! Is there anything roughly equivalent for Vim? The closest I could find is vim-table-mode: https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode.

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#3

Post by mindcrime » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 12:34 AM UTC

That's actually really freaking cool. I was hoping that the native file format would be just a simple csv/tsv or something, but no such luck. But there is an "export as tab separated" function.

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#4

Post by dima55 » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 12:55 AM UTC

These days one can use org-mode tables for quite a bit of spreadsheet stuff.

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Post by catern » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 1:19 AM UTC

clessg wrote: post #2

Cool! Is there anything roughly equivalent for Vim? The closest I could find is vim-table-mode: https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode .

The closest approximation is probably gritting your teeth, installing evil-mode, and using Emacs.

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Post by mattbasta » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 2:39 AM UTC

"Immune to viruses in spreadsheet files."

I find this claim dubious.

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#7

Post by wglb » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 3:17 AM UTC

mattbasta wrote: post #6

"Immune to viruses in spreadsheet files." I find this claim dubious.

Because?

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Post by lokedhs » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 3:39 AM UTC

I used SES when adding a matrix editor to gnu-apl-mode. When editing a matrix, it opens it as a SES document and when closing it it automatically updates the underlying variable.

You can see it in use here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4A5CKITnM

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Post by technomancy » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 3:44 AM UTC

wglb wrote: post #7

mattbasta wrote: post #6

"Immune to viruses in spreadsheet files." I find this claim dubious.

Because?

Elsewhere in the manual it seems to imply that formulas can include arbitrary Emacs Lisp functions, which would make it quite easy to implement a virus as there appears to be no sandboxing. What it probably means is that viruses written for other spreadsheet implementations won't work on it.

Edit: never mind; I read further and it does do some sandboxing based on the same whitelisting principles as directory-local variable settings. Very clever.

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Post by julienchastang » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 4:19 AM UTC

This looks interesting, but what I would like to see is good integration with org, org tables, and org babel.