Python spreadsheet

[François Pinard]

[Michael Hudson]

> Brian Elmegaard <brian at rk-speed-rugby.dk> writes:

> > pinard at iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
> > 
> > > For one, I like the `SES' (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet), it's more
> > > affordable than the usual monsters :-).
> > 
> > Wow, the one thing I believed didn't exist for emacs. (Of course, I am
> > quite naïve.) 

> Heh?  I didn't *know* there was a spreadsheet for emacs, but I was
> downright *certain* there would be one out there somewhere...

I wanted a Python-able spreadsheet.  Gnumeric was presented as one of them,
but it is just too big for me, besides a good weight of attracting and
useful chrome.  It comes with its own, rather full language.  I would prefer
sticking with Python, as far as learning languages goes.

Having a spreadsheet integrated in my own usual editor, Emacs, was also
tempting.  As I wrote before, Pymacs provides me with the Pythonish link I
want to have handy if I ever need complex or flexible functions for
computing cells.  So, all considered, I went the Emacs way.  On the Emacs
spreadsheet side, before SES, I gave Dismal a try, but found it bigger than
what I need, it also had stability problems.  Table is useful for entering
tabular data, but is not designed as a spreadsheet, and lacks functionality
as such.  I am fairly satisfied with SES, and I may stretch SES for a while
before I feel its limits, which I guess might be a loss of speed when
handling very long spreadsheets.

Let me append a few (maybe oldish) random references and notes below. :-)


* Notes sur les chiffriers

.. Emacs

. : SES
    Jonathan Yavner <jyavner at engineer.com>
    http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jyavner/ses

    Dans `ses.el' remplacer un espace par quatre dans:
    ;;Leave room for the left-side fringe
    (push " " result))

. : Table
    <Takaaki.Ota at am.sony.com>
    http://table.sourceforge.net/

    table.el version 1.5.48, 2001-08-19

. : Esheet
    esheet.sourceforge.net
    dspeyere at users.sourceforge.net

    Liens brisés, auteur hors circuit.

. : Dismal
    http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~mrh/uid/dismal.html
    http://www.psyc.nott.ac.uk/staff/ritter/papers/dismal/dismal.html
    ftp://ftp.nottingham.ac.uk/pub/lpzfr/dismal-1.4.tar.gz

    Compliqué, un peu académique.
    Rafraîchissement élémentaire souvent défectueux.

    make
    dismal=~/local/share/emacs/21/dismal
    install -d $dismal
    install -m 644 *.elc log.el make-km-aliases.el $dismal

.. Spreadsheet
   Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org>
   http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/unmaintained/spreadsheet.html

   Classe Python et interface curses.  Problème autour de `rexec'?

.. Gnumeric
   Miguel de Icaza
   http://www.gnome.org/gnumeric/
   http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnumeric/doc/python-gnumeric.txt

   Foison de fonctions spécialisées, probablement pour ressembler à Excell.
   Interface Python expérimental et non-documenté.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard