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show me how you start excel in your terminal

lkdfjlkdfjlg 2y ago
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.
- teleforce 2y ago
  Imagine having the ability doing your budgetting spreadsheet over SSH, okay never mind ...
  - lkdfjlkdfjlg 2y ago
    Why would I choose to do such a basic task over SSH? I do all "office-type" tasks locally. Adding a network here is just over complicating.
smaudet 2y ago
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.
- SoftTalker 2y ago
  I suppose you could share using tmux or screen.
  - smaudet 2y ago
    And my next question would be can this software handle concurrent writes? If it could, that'd be an excellent solution.
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- constantcrying 2y ago
  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.
  - smaudet 2y ago
    > 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 How about for just personal (family/friends) usage? I would tend to agree spreadsheets are a crutch in larger orgs, however they're best deployed as a prototype tool IMO. There's plenty of room for > 1 and < 5 (write-access) person operations where cloud based xlsx sharing just makes far more sense than some expensive/excessive enterprise tools.
- p_l 2y ago
  It appears to support XLSX, so for certain level of sharing it should work.
fragmede 2y ago
' open /Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/
- lsllc 2y ago
  Hmmm: The files /Applications/Microsoft and /Users/lsllc/Excel.app do not exist. Missing a backslash! [0] ... how quaintly Microsoft! /s [0] To escape the space, or you could quote the entire argument to `open`
- Someone 2y ago
  More robust: open -b com.Microsoft.Excel That will open it even if it has a different name or is in a different directory. Disadvantage: autocomplete doesn’t work on that in the 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.

teleforce 2y ago
Imagine having the ability doing your budgetting spreadsheet over SSH, okay never mind ...
- lkdfjlkdfjlg 2y ago
  Why would I choose to do such a basic task over SSH? I do all "office-type" tasks locally. Adding a network here is just over complicating.

smaudet 2y ago

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.

SoftTalker 2y ago
I suppose you could share using tmux or screen.
- smaudet 2y ago
  And my next question would be can this software handle concurrent writes? If it could, that'd be an excellent solution.
  - deleted 2y ago
    [deleted]
constantcrying 2y ago
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.
- smaudet 2y ago
  > 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 How about for just personal (family/friends) usage? I would tend to agree spreadsheets are a crutch in larger orgs, however they're best deployed as a prototype tool IMO. There's plenty of room for > 1 and < 5 (write-access) person operations where cloud based xlsx sharing just makes far more sense than some expensive/excessive enterprise tools.
p_l 2y ago
It appears to support XLSX, so for certain level of sharing it should work.

fragmede 2y ago

' open /Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/

lsllc 2y ago
Hmmm: The files /Applications/Microsoft and /Users/lsllc/Excel.app do not exist. Missing a backslash! [0] ... how quaintly Microsoft! /s [0] To escape the space, or you could quote the entire argument to `open`
Someone 2y ago
More robust: open -b com.Microsoft.Excel That will open it even if it has a different name or is in a different directory. Disadvantage: autocomplete doesn’t work on that in the terminal.