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Editing multiline commands directly on the commandline in Fish and IPython5 is a nice feature, I do feel that Jupyter notebooks or Org-mode with langservers is
by emj 7y ago
Editing multiline commands directly on the commandline in Fish and IPython5 is a nice feature, I do feel that Jupyter notebooks or Org-mode with langservers is another type of CLI that should be mentioned. With that said I feel that Excel is counterpoint, it has something similar to CLIs as well; it can instantaneously display and filter lots of data. This is where Org-mode and Notebooks fails they have a laggy UI when you give them too much data.
- d0mine 7y agoare you kidding? It is easy to perform calculations involving millions of numbers in org-mode (e.g., using numpy) that I wouldn't even try in Excel (is there a limit of 16k columns?)
- emj 7y agoThanks for bringing that up, I'm not talking about calculation, it's text output that is formated to be visible on screen (i.e. terminal), and Emacs shell has historically had a really crappy latency when displaying lots of data. Excel oftens out preforms custom Notebooks for data that fits its scope. Which is why Excel is used so much, it feels very when working with somethings meaning it gets used in areas where it should not be. This musing to me is not about which tool is the best but what UI feels good to use, even though it CLI based.