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  • This2ShallPassOPEnglish
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    30 days ago

    For those who don’t know. Emacs has a built in spreadsheet called Simple Emacs Spreadsheets or SES.

    Alternatively, tables in Org mode can also be set up to act like spreadsheets as well and they come with robust options for calculations, plotting with Gnuplot, or importing the data into source code blocks.

    • madnificentEnglish
      1·
      30 days ago

      I use org tables often but find the spreadsheet functionality a bit hard to discover and get right. How does SES compare?

      • This2ShallPassOPEnglish
        2·
        29 days ago

        I think in many ways it feels like a more traditional spreadsheet, but I could see where it could also be a bit more difficult for some than Org tables.

        All the cells and numbers are similar to that such as other spreadsheet programs like Excel (A1, B1… etc). Formulas are entered below at the bottom of the buffer using Emacs lisp. These will be hidden unless you widen the buffer. This could be a challenge for some compared to the syntax for Org tables. Although, if you are comfortable juggling all the parentheses in Excel formulas, Lisp should be similar in many ways.

        Here is a good Outline.