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.
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#12Are 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
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...
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#13It's not overkill at all. In fact, it's absolutely necessary for all but the simplest toy examples.
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#14Are 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
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#15Are 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
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#19> 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.
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#20Are 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.