Does it have more features than dBase IV, Quattro Pro?
SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
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#13This catches my eye every time, but for day-to-day work I always fall back to Google sheets. In light of that, this browser extension I found recently has been an absolute game changer: https://github.com/philc/sheetkeys
Because really, do you want all of vim in sheets, or just navigation (`i/h/j/k/gg/G/^u/^d`) and selection (`v/V`)? It has some other basic stuff, like `dd` and `o/O`, but otherwise conflicts with browser and Google functionality keep me away.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
show me how you start excel in your terminal
For me spreadsheets are most useful when shared. My biggest objection - can I share with e.g. google sheets or office 365? I think it's neat for terminal usage, though. Other problem: I can vim but I prefer the emacs keybindings.
It appears to support XLSX, so for certain level of sharing it should work.
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#15I think it looks gorgeous, but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel.
I used it on my Raspberry Pi Zero "TravelPi" project which was TUI-based. No way could I get Excel on there :)
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#16Does it have more features than dBase IV, Quattro Pro?
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#17This article made me recall a text based GUI? I used in commercial programming tool named "Vermont Views" previously named "Windows for Data" This was around about 1990 or earlier? . It was a tool that allowed relatively easy development of text based user interfaces Old Ad for it https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1992-01/page/n25/m... Google the words >> +"Windows for Data" Vermont Views << for lots other links ....
Re: SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
#18Pretty cool! It's kinda amusing that we've gone from TUI (VisiCalc/Lotus 1-2-3) to GUI (Excel), and back to TUI though.
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#19I really wanted to use this tool because I love Vim, but it just feels 'off' to me. I'm not sure why, though.
In a spreadsheet, I'm used to being able to move around with arrow keys and start typing immediately. Using SCIM, it feels like I'm constantly hitting a wall.
Despite that, I think the idea of a spreadsheet as a TUI is really great.
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#20Pretty cool! It's kinda amusing that we've gone from TUI (VisiCalc/Lotus 1-2-3) to GUI (Excel), and back to TUI though.
cursor-addressing uis likely have a higher barrier to entry (both for developers and users), so they are not suffering from the regression to the mean that has made modern guis absolutely unusable.
that, and there aren't any "ui/ux designers" specialising in cursor-addressing uis.