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Turbo Vision
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.
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tidy-viewer
📺(tv) Tidy Viewer is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment.
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L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility
There are quite a few other terminal based spreadsheet people have been doing over the last few years.
Most notably:
https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
Has been in HN often, most recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662658
New takes:
- Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings
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sc-im Spreadsheets in Your Terminal
I tried this out when it was mentioned a few weeks ago[1].
It's pretty neat but does have a number of bugs. The packaged version also doesn't have xls support compiled in (at least on Fedora) which is unfortunate, though building is fairly easy[2].
I love the idea of it though, so I'm really hoping these issues get ironed out! I'm happy to help contribute if maintainers are willing.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457009
[2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/wiki/Building-sc%E2%80...
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Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal
See also, one of the older / more-robust entrants in this space [0], and one of the more innovative (still from a hot-second ago now…) [1].
0. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im - VisiCalc Reconstructed
- SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
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Comparing C++ range libraries for filter+reverse case with non-trivial lambda
I will then convert the stats file with a perf-stat-to-sc script I wrote. It will create a sc-im spreadsheet, which will make it easier to compare the results.
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Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV
While not built around CSV, two terminal spreadsheet tools I have successfully used in the past are sc-im and the (neo)vim plugin vim-table-mode:
https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/
https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode
Back then I stopped using sc-im because it could not import/export XLSX, if I remember correctly. Apparently it can today!
vim-table-mode always felt a little fragile and I don't want to be bound to vim anymore. That said, it still feels like a small miracle to me to have functional spreadsheet formulas inside markdown documents – calculation and typesetting all in one place.
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Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal:
https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
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Lightweight Spreadsheet App.
app-office/sc-im "Ncurses based, vim-like spreadsheet calculator (https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im)" perhaps?
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