On Friday, August 2, 2013 12:05:53 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Skip Montanaro writes:
>
> > I really love Emacs, however... […]
> >
> > This is clearly a case where choosing the proper tool is important. I
> > agree that using a spreadsheet to edit a 3x5 CSV file is likely
> > overkill (might
On 2013-08-02, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Chris Angelico writes:
>>
>>> [?] rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far
>>> as I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.)
>>
>> That's simply false. ...
>>
>> Claiming
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
>> […] rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far
>> as I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.)
>
> That's simply false. ...
>
> Claiming they're the same product is ignoring the transfe
Le jeudi 1 août 2013 02:50:13 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit :
> ...
> rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far as
>
> I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.)
...
Very interesting aspect in LibreOffice.
As the "center of gravity of the development" has move
Chris Angelico writes:
> […] rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far
> as I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.)
That's simply false. LibreOffice has, since the 2010 fork of the code
base and especially since the exodus of developers to The Document
Foundati
Skip Montanaro writes:
> I really love Emacs, however... […]
>
> This is clearly a case where choosing the proper tool is important. I
> agree that using a spreadsheet to edit a 3x5 CSV file is likely
> overkill (might just as well use Notepad or TextEdit), but tabular
> data are tabular data, no
On 2013-08-01, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>> On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro wrote:
I don't understand. That just moves them to a different
file -- doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a
large table of data (for ex
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>> I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file --
>>> doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of
>>> data (for example when I want to add instructions to your a
> Has anyone tried Pyspread?
I have not.
I have a fundamental problem with spreadsheets, the extremely narrow view
of the workspace. There was a piece on NPR the other day about some errors
in some modeling applications. I missed most of it (does someone have a
link? I'm on my phone right now), b
On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:39:29 PM UTC-4, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file --
>
> > doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of
>
> > data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler).
>
>
>
>
>> My guess is it would be more foolproof to edit that stuff with a
>> spreadsheet.
>
> Many years ago, I worked with somebody who used a spreadsheet like
> that.
I really love Emacs, however... One of the traders here where I work
(who shall not be named) had a space-delimited data file with hun
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:39:29 +0100, Skip Montanaro wrote:
I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file --
doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of
data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler).
My guess is it would be more foo
On 2013-07-31, Rhodri James wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:39:29 +0100, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>>> I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file --
>>> doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of
>>> data (for example when I want to add instructions to yo
On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file --
>> doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of
>> data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler).
>
> My guess is it would be more foolproof to edi
> I don't understand. That just moves them to a different file --
> doesn't it? You've still got to deal with editing a large table of
> data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler).
My guess is it would be more foolproof to edit that stuff with a spreadsheet.
Skip
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