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This looks very sexy, and I don't say that often about technology. This is something I've wanted to see for a long time - the ability to seamlessly move from a

by debacle 11y ago

This looks very sexy, and I don't say that often about technology. This is something I've wanted to see for a long time - the ability to seamlessly move from a spreadsheet to an application Edit: Quick feedback Cell names appear to be case sensitive. While this makes sense from a programming standpoint, if I can't have a cell named "a1" the application should convert that to "A1" for me. Not being able to tab between cells is annoying. Was there a decision made not to capture the tab event?

nokome 11y ago
@debacle, thanks for the nice feedback. Regarding cell names. Currently every cell has an "id" e.g. A1 which is represented in the background R session as the variable A1. If you enter a formula like "pi = 3.14" into cell A1 then that cell has an id of A1 as well as a "name" (like an alias) of "pi". You can name a cell "a1" e.g. enter "a1 = 42" into cell A1 - but that could be confusing. Yes, not being able to tab between cells is annoying - no decision was made on that - we just haven't got round to it. Just created an issue: https://github.com/stencila/stencila/issues/162 https://github.com/stencila/stencila/issues/162. Thanks for the prod!
- debacle 11y ago
  It might be good user experience to either make variable names case-insensitive (could be done any time before R), or default a1/A1 as the same pointer. You'll really want to appeal to less technical folk, and they have trouble with case-sensitive things.