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i am surprised emacs doesn't have this already emacs seems more like the right place for this that being said, i think the spreadsheet being a separate command

i am surprised emacs doesn't have this already emacs seems more like the right place for this that being said, i think the spreadsheet being a separate command line tool make more sense, i dont understand why integrate it into the shell nushell or pwsh, might make use of a spreadsheet view, since they pass or stream objects not text , but still the spreadsheet should be a separate program

xk3 2y ago
nushell has `open file.xlsx | explore --peek` which can be used to interactively select a cell contents from an Excel spreadsheet and pipe it into another command. It would be cool if there were similar tools for editing table data. See also the `inspect` command... I feel like they could add a lot of neat Smalltalk-like interactivity (Bret Victor-level observability)
- systems 2y ago
  in pwsh you can Out-GridView which gives you a full graphical view, you cannot edit data, and its usually the last step in a pipeline between nushell and pwsh, i think pwsh is the way to go, only drawback it required dotnet installed, nushell being more standalone beat it on this
  - rrrix1 2y ago
    I have always felt pwsh is one of those "great idea, poorly implemented" things. I mean, who puts Verbs-InCommandNames? No one who wants to actually remember all of their CLI tools. That's who.
    - systems 2y ago
      well, its a convention , it makes it easier to guess the command name, and considering in pwsh you have hundreds of commands, finding the command can be a challenge pwsh have autocomplete and command to help you find other commands pwsh is actually more unixy than unix, it have more specialized commands in linux you have bigger command, commands that do at lot, and take a lot to learn pwsh is a great idea, implemented very nicely, i dont see any major flaws , except poor adoption on linux .. and of course dotnet dependency a native pwsh would be amazing
rrrix1 2y ago
But... Then you have to actually use emacs. /shiver

xk3 2y ago

nushell has `open file.xlsx | explore --peek` which can be used to interactively select a cell contents from an Excel spreadsheet and pipe it into another command. It would be cool if there were similar tools for editing table data. See also the `inspect` command... I feel like they could add a lot of neat Smalltalk-like interactivity (Bret Victor-level observability)

systems 2y ago
in pwsh you can Out-GridView which gives you a full graphical view, you cannot edit data, and its usually the last step in a pipeline between nushell and pwsh, i think pwsh is the way to go, only drawback it required dotnet installed, nushell being more standalone beat it on this
- rrrix1 2y ago
  I have always felt pwsh is one of those "great idea, poorly implemented" things. I mean, who puts Verbs-InCommandNames? No one who wants to actually remember all of their CLI tools. That's who.
  - systems 2y ago
    well, its a convention , it makes it easier to guess the command name, and considering in pwsh you have hundreds of commands, finding the command can be a challenge pwsh have autocomplete and command to help you find other commands pwsh is actually more unixy than unix, it have more specialized commands in linux you have bigger command, commands that do at lot, and take a lot to learn pwsh is a great idea, implemented very nicely, i dont see any major flaws , except poor adoption on linux .. and of course dotnet dependency a native pwsh would be amazing

rrrix1 2y ago

But... Then you have to actually use emacs. /shiver