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This is convenient timing for me. I was just thinking about dual booting to a stripped down cli only arch install on my netbook for fun. I hadn't even thought

This is convenient timing for me. I was just thinking about dual booting to a stripped down cli only arch install on my netbook for fun. I hadn't even thought about having some basic spreadsheet functionality. Should be interesting to mess around with. Not an office app, but I think tmux is probably my favorite all around need-to-have, for when I'm working cli only. edit: this also makes me think it wouldn't be too hard to write an excel as a service layer on a normal windows machine, then use the cli comp to interface with it. You wouldn't get the fancy formatting, but you could pretty easily get the calculations and such, as well as some basic formatting. Also not tough to make it save itself and send it out via outlook or whatever you want. Without all the nutty formatting, the data transmission could be pretty light weight. Wonder if anyone's done that. Might screw around with it if I have spare time

omaranto 13y ago
Using a cli for everything is an extreme proposition! You'll probably get tired of it quickly and choose to add some fullscreen text mode programs to the mix, like vim or emacs. For a "full featured" console environment, add some programs that use the frame buffer to display images, you can probably setup your netbook to be pretty serviceable without installing a windowing system at all.
- doorhammer 13y ago
  Yeah; I use vim as my editor of choice (outside of my job which is actually .net, heh). I have other computers I use a lot, and I'd never 100% give up on gui's. Mostly I'd be setting up an environment that boots quickly, reduces background processes, and gives me a nice retro place to code in when I'm tooling with haskell or c. I also like having an environment that I've fully optimized for keyboard only. The excel part would just be an interesting convergence of what I do at work with windows, and what I use mostly at home. I've never messed with frame buffers in terminal; that'd be really interesting. Maybe I'll see if I can get to something more fully functional after all. I've always gone pretty much easy-mode when it comes to linux. I want to get more hands-on with the distro
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  - MichaelGG 13y ago
    >Yeah; I use vim as my editor of choice (outside of my job which is actually .net, heh). In case you haven't seen it: ViEmu is a great addon for Visual Studio.
- gaius 13y ago
  I tend to consider (n)curses be command-line. In fact I suspect that most people would consider "command line" to be more akin to a VT100 than a teletype.
parm289 13y ago
You might be interested in the axlsx ruby gem: https://github.com/randym/axlsx https://github.com/randym/axlsx Haven't used it, but it allows the creation of pretty complex spreadsheets from ruby code. Not sure if it is able to read from spreadsheets, but it could be one part of the service layer.

omaranto 13y ago

Using a cli for everything is an extreme proposition! You'll probably get tired of it quickly and choose to add some fullscreen text mode programs to the mix, like vim or emacs. For a "full featured" console environment, add some programs that use the frame buffer to display images, you can probably setup your netbook to be pretty serviceable without installing a windowing system at all.

doorhammer 13y ago
Yeah; I use vim as my editor of choice (outside of my job which is actually .net, heh). I have other computers I use a lot, and I'd never 100% give up on gui's. Mostly I'd be setting up an environment that boots quickly, reduces background processes, and gives me a nice retro place to code in when I'm tooling with haskell or c. I also like having an environment that I've fully optimized for keyboard only. The excel part would just be an interesting convergence of what I do at work with windows, and what I use mostly at home. I've never messed with frame buffers in terminal; that'd be really interesting. Maybe I'll see if I can get to something more fully functional after all. I've always gone pretty much easy-mode when it comes to linux. I want to get more hands-on with the distro
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- MichaelGG 13y ago
  >Yeah; I use vim as my editor of choice (outside of my job which is actually .net, heh). In case you haven't seen it: ViEmu is a great addon for Visual Studio.
gaius 13y ago
I tend to consider (n)curses be command-line. In fact I suspect that most people would consider "command line" to be more akin to a VT100 than a teletype.

parm289 13y ago

You might be interested in the axlsx ruby gem: https://github.com/randym/axlsx https://github.com/randym/axlsx Haven't used it, but it allows the creation of pretty complex spreadsheets from ruby code. Not sure if it is able to read from spreadsheets, but it could be one part of the service layer.