[RndTbl] Text based spread sheet

[Stuart Williams]

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 at 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 at 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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