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I wish we had a markdown equivalent for spreadsheets. Markdown tables ain’t it.

• acrophiliac 2y ago
  Your comment has me very curious what exactly you are looking for in a "markdown equivalent" for spreadsheets. Do you want Excel to be able to export the spreadsheet in a Markdown-like format (including formulas, etc)? Or do you want to build the spreadsheet in a text editor using Markdown++ syntax and then use some GUI application to render it? Or do you simply want an ASCII version of Excel that works in a terminal?
  • sneak 2y ago
    the second one. I want a human editable plain text spreadsheet format. CSV and TSV ain’t it, not the least of which is because they don’t have formulae.
• zelphirkalt 2y ago
  Org-mode. Emacs Org mode has tables with formulas, being able to make use of many programming languages. By default Calc (I believe GNU Calc) and Elisp. However using sbe you can make it use code blocks written in any language that you have support for using org-babel. For example I have time tracking spreadsheets using source blocks of GNU Guile code for time calculation. Of course you can put that under version control easily, since it is just a text document.