John H. Robinson, IV([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:27:16AM -0800: > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > > > May I ask: what desktop system do you use, and what are your favorite > > browser, email app, media player, office software? What other apps do you > > use > > every single day? (Shouldn't be that long of a list.) > <snip> > > Spreadsheet: > yet to find one I like. Recomendations? >
For something console-based, you might look at sc. This has key-bindings that are similar to vi's, and has a CLI interface. So, if you had a need to update a cell or two, you could run the sc command from your script, rather than running the console app. Another interesting feature is that each cell can have *both* a numeric value *and* a text string value. This made intuitive sense to me. Seems that half the cells in a spreadsheet are wasted on simply providing labels for the other half of the cells. In sc, the labels can live in the same cell with the value. Another big feature in my view (and one that I don't hear spoken of nearly as much as I used to) is that the resulting files are completely intelligible to humans. If sc breaks, vim can get your data for you. I don't need or use spreadsheets often, so I'm happy with the console stuff. When I really need the GUI factor, I usually use gnumeric. No real reason beyond habit. Wade Curry -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
