On 13.03.18 09:59, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:42:08 +1100 > Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > An sc description: "Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and > > it has most features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things > > like graphing and saving in foreign formats. It's very stable and > > quite easy to use once you've put a little effort into learning it." > > makes it look as simple as it gets. > > > > Erik > > (Who just uses a line of awk when needing to sum a column or two in a > > table.) > > > > It's the 'little effort' that stood out for me. Someone familiar with > the operation of a piece of software always grossly underestimates how > much they know about it, and how much someone else coming to it cold > needs to know.
Too true. After a couple of hours of failing to get any GUI drawing package, not least LibreOffice, to do anything useful, I used Vim to textually produce the 8 drawings for my house; plan, elevations & sections, and site plan. It took about 800 lines of Postscript, and I didn't have to crack the inscrutable secrets of an obstructive GUI interface. But I persevered with the Eagle GUI schematic capture & PCB layout app, putting in the weeks to tame it. It probably comes down to whether you think you'll ever use it again. Erik
