L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility

nhatcher•about 2 hours ago

Cool to see this here! There are quite a few other terminal based spreadsheet people have been doing over the last few years.

Most notably:

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

Has been in HN often, most recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662658

New takes: https://github.com/zaphar/sheetsui https://github.com/garritfra/cell

recsv-heredoc•about 3 hours ago

I can highly suggest visidata! https://www.visidata.org

It's an incredibly useful piece of software for data wrangling and exploration.

easygenes•about 2 hours ago

Very early in my career I made friends with the business’s sole Lotus Notes administrator, "the email server guy." He was pretty proud of what it could do, and I sometimes get nostalgic for the admin UI.

bb88•about 1 hour ago

I remember being a teenager and building forms using the Lotus 123 WYSIWYG graphics.

create_accounts•about 3 hours ago

It would be great to have a terminal compatible Wordperfect alternative, like in the MS DOS days. Can you use Vim to edit documents for printing?

duane1024•about 2 hours ago

I started this project because I was nostalgic for Lotus 1-2-3, but I really really really loved WordPerfect. I'm afraid of starting that project, however, as it might take over my life :) I used to use WordPerfect 5.1 on a 386 PC to edit my school newspaper with multiple columns, graphics, custom fonts, etc. No WYSIWYG, just the power of Alt+F3 (Reveal Codes)!

gerdesj•about 2 hours ago

I still have an original cardboard strip with the function key codes on it somewhere. Ctrl-F9 ... font (I think, it was rather a long time ago).

LeoPanthera•about 2 hours ago

Wordgrinder. https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder

bananapub•about 2 hours ago

https://github.com/taviso/wpunix

bitwize•about 2 hours ago

Yes, if you use a formatter like LaTeX. The beauty part is, "Reveal Codes" is always on!

manithree•about 2 hours ago

As a big fan of WordPerfect on my first DOS machine (286 clone), I agree. I respect authors like GRRM for sticking with WordStar, but whenever I get nostalgic and wondering about WordPerfect in DosBox, I remember I use emacs and typst. All the good things about WordPerfect, but vastly superior.

bitwize•about 1 hour ago

I keep seeing ads for expensive "writerdecks" that run between $500 and $1200 and have a bare-minimum OS that is intended for distraction-free writing. I keep wondering how these are any better than an old laptop, FreeDOS, and WordPerfect 5.2, except as Veblen goods.

LeoPanthera•about 2 hours ago

See also Wordgrinder, a text-mode word processor. (As distinct from a text editor.) https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder

tswq•about 2 hours ago

Doesn't seem as useful as visidata. Will check out though! Looks like a fun weekend project :)

L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility

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