SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
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#2This has been posted several times on HN, but besides being awesome, this project should be better funded. Please read the README on Github and sponsor it on patreon.
Re: SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
#3I think it looks gorgeous, but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel.
Re: SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
#4I think it looks gorgeous, but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel.
show me how you start excel in your terminal
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#5I think it looks gorgeous, but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel.
show me how you start excel in your terminal
That's.... my point. I'm skeptical that you'd be more efficient by doing spreadsheet operations on your terminal vs just using excel on your non-terminal.
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#6I think it looks gorgeous, but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel.
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.
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#7I think it looks gorgeous, but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel.
>but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel.
It is more keyboard driven than Excel and felt a bit more "productive", far less focus on designing the spreadsheet.
You use Excel because you have to, as part of your job. But I used this for some smaller things and it worked reasonably well.
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#8Earlier 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.
I suppose you could share using tmux or screen.
Re: SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
#9I think it looks gorgeous, but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel.
>but I'm skeptical that it's actually more efficient than just using excel. It is more keyboard driven than Excel and felt a bit more "productive", far less focus on designing the spreadsheet. You use Excel because you have to, as part of your job. But I used this for some smaller things and it worked reasonably well.
Lotus 1-2-3 was originally a screen-based, keyboard driven application.
Re: SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
#10Earlier 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.
You can share with git. But obviously this is no real replacement for cloud based multi user spread sheet software.
To be honest I also think that if you are making heavy use of cloud based spread sheet software you have a 100% chance of being a drain on your organization and society as a whole, so I can't really count those missing features as a big downside.