L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility

31•duane1024•1h ago

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create_accounts•59m ago

It would be great to have a terminal compatible Wordperfect alternative, like in the MS DOS days. Can you use Vim to edit documents for printing?

duane1024•53m ago

I started this project because I was nostalgic for Lotus 1-2-3, but I really really really loved WordPerfect. I'm afraid of starting that project, however, as it might take over my life :) I used to use WordPerfect 5.1 on a 386 PC to edit my school newspaper with multiple columns, graphics, custom fonts, etc. No WYSIWYG, just the power of Alt+F3 (Reveal Codes)!

gerdesj•22m ago

I still have an original cardboard strip with the function key codes on it somewhere. Ctrl-F9 ... font (I think, it was rather a long time ago).

bitwize•44m ago

Yes, if you use a formatter like LaTeX. The beauty part is, "Reveal Codes" is always on!

manithree•30m ago

As a big fan of WordPerfect on my first DOS machine (286 clone), I agree. I respect authors like GRRM for sticking with WordStar, but whenever I get nostalgic and wondering about WordPerfect in DosBox, I remember I use emacs and typst. All the good things about WordPerfect, but vastly superior.

bananapub•35m ago

https://github.com/taviso/wpunix

recsv-heredoc•57m ago

I can highly suggest visidata! https://www.visidata.org

It's an incredibly useful piece of software for data wrangling and exploration.

easygenes•25m ago

Very early in my career I made friends with the business’s sole Lotus Notes administrator, "the email server guy." He was pretty proud of what it could do, and I sometimes get nostalgic for the admin UI.

nhatcher•11m ago

Cool to see this here! There are quite a few other terminal based spreadsheet people have been doing over the last few years.

Most notably:

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

Has been in HN often, most recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662658

New takes: https://github.com/zaphar/sheetsui https://github.com/garritfra/cell

tswq•3m ago

Doesn't seem as useful as visidata. Will check out though! Looks like a fun weekend project :)

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