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Re: VisiCalc Reconstructed

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Are there good command-line interfaces for spreadsheets? I don't do anything super financially-important and I'd prefer to stay in the terminal for quick editing of things, especially if I can have Vi keybindings.

Oh man, a TUI spreadsheet application that can edit ODF or XLSX format would be absolutely killer. Would love to hear if anyone knows of such a tool

Re: VisiCalc Reconstructed

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post #8

Are there good command-line interfaces for spreadsheets? I don't do anything super financially-important and I'd prefer to stay in the terminal for quick editing of things, especially if I can have Vi keybindings.

There is SC and now sc-im: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im You can also literally run Lotus 123 if you want. Someone has binaries to make it work on linux. or under dosemu

Neat, thank you! sc-im looks amazing, and it's even in the Fedora repos (though the repo version doesn't support xlsx, so I'll compile myself and try it out)

Edit: Quite painless! Opened some test xlsx files without issue. Did get a stack trace on a very complicated one, so when I have time I'll try and dig in deeper. Added a doc to the wiki in case it's helpful to other: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/wiki/Building-sc%E2%80...

Re: VisiCalc Reconstructed

#13
> Maintaining a dependency graph would give us the most efficient updates, but it’s often an overkill for a spreadsheet.

It's not overkill at all. In fact, it's absolutely necessary for all but the simplest toy examples.

Re: VisiCalc Reconstructed

#14

Are there good command-line interfaces for spreadsheets? I don't do anything super financially-important and I'd prefer to stay in the terminal for quick editing of things, especially if I can have Vi keybindings.

Oh man, a TUI spreadsheet application that can edit ODF or XLSX format would be absolutely killer. Would love to hear if anyone knows of such a tool

Pretty sure I can build one based on code I already have. If others are interested in this, please let me know and I'll bang it out in the next couple of weeks.

Re: VisiCalc Reconstructed

#15

Are there good command-line interfaces for spreadsheets? I don't do anything super financially-important and I'd prefer to stay in the terminal for quick editing of things, especially if I can have Vi keybindings.

Oh man, a TUI spreadsheet application that can edit ODF or XLSX format would be absolutely killer. Would love to hear if anyone knows of such a tool

vibe one. ;-)

Re: VisiCalc Reconstructed

#17
I’m genuinely worried that we’re the last generation who will study and appreciate this craft. Because now a kid learning to program will just say “Write me a terminal spreadsheet app in plain C.”

Re: VisiCalc Reconstructed

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> Maintaining a dependency graph would give us the most efficient updates, but it’s often an overkill for a spreadsheet. It's not overkill at all. In fact, it's absolutely necessary for all but the simplest toy examples.

Isn’t the existence & success of visicalc a direct counter to this?

Re: VisiCalc Reconstructed

#20

Are there good command-line interfaces for spreadsheets? I don't do anything super financially-important and I'd prefer to stay in the terminal for quick editing of things, especially if I can have Vi keybindings.

Visidata[0] is a killer data swiss army knife. It's even inspired off Visicalc

[0] https://www.visidata.org/

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