On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:34:44AM -0600, Sean Cody wrote:

Sorry I can't hold back on this one....

awk!!!! FTW!

For a curses spreadsheet try sc.

Scott

On 2009-12-22 13:59, John Lange wrote:

Thanks to those that suggested "sc". It however does not appear to be supported or developed any longer and there are no SUSE packages for it. I could compile it but ultimately I need something that will work in production so I'd rather avoid that.

A couple other outdated, text-mode spreadsheets you might have more luck with...

GNU Oleo: http://www.gnu.org/software/oleo/ SIAG: http://siag.nu/siag/

Both of these provided both an X11-based GUI as well as a text-based interface (curses?). Oleo is no longer maintained. Siag seems to be a little less dated. Not sure about package availability for OpenSUSE for either of these.

In emacs, M-x set-variable tab-width N where N is wider than your widest column datum should work, unless I'm not understanding what you mean by displaying tabs in columns. If you don't want all the columns displaying the same width, use M-x edit-tab-stops to customize them.

Then there's SES mode, a spreadsheet written in emacs, which I've never used and probably never will, but it's always fun to try to think of some application that couldn't or hasn't been written in emacs and then get surprised to find it has.

Stuart.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:59 PM, John Lange john@johnlange.ca wrote:

Thanks to those that suggested "sc". It however does not appear to be supported or developed any longer and there are no SUSE packages for it. I could compile it but ultimately I need something that will work in production so I'd rather avoid that.

Stuart suggested vi or emacs but I could not get either of them to display tabs in columns.

I also tried 'joe', and 'nano'. No luck.

Regards,

John Lange http://www.johnlange.ca

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 16:44 -0600, Stuart Williams wrote:

...

vi emacs etc.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:30 AM, John Lange john@johnlange.ca wrote: I have a very wide "tab delimited" file that I need to edit in an ssh console.

    I've been downloading it, editing it with OpenOffice, then
    re-uploading
    it but aside from being tedious, that isn't always possible if
    I don't
    have my laptop handy.

    Does anyone have any recommendations for a curses based
    program that
    would make my life easier? I have no requirements other than
    editing and
    preserving the file's tab structure in columns. If it can keep
    the top
    row (the column labels) in view while editing that would be a
    bonus.

    --
    John Lange
    http://www.johnlange.ca

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