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i wish someone would write, from scratch (with modern, but minimalist approaches) a text-first spreadsheet that is based on something like TSV (but with some metadata) and can be easily synced/merged and viewed/edited on the web as well.

@mntmn argh, yes. For functionality and the text-first approach I am absolutely in love with the org-mode spreadsheet¹²³, but it's no good for simultaneous collaboration with other users.

¹: orgmode.org/manual/The-Spreads

²: orgmode.org/worg/

³: gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/

orgmode.orgThe Spreadsheet (The Org Manual)The Spreadsheet (The Org Manual)

@gnomon org-mode spreadsheet does not calculate in realtime though, or does it? maybe i'm remembering a different one in emacs where it was cumbersome to recalculate and rearrange things

Ben Zanin

@mntmn both automatic cell recalculation¹ and rearranging rows & columns while automatically updating formula references do work now, but I think only in the last couple of years did they get particularly polished.

(I like the decoupling between data entry and formula evaluation, possibly because I got used to clock expressions in a different spreadsheet I used previously²³, but I think I'm in the minority.)

¹: orgmode.org/manual/Advanced-fe

²: github.com/samuelludwig/teapot

³: syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/

orgmode.orgAdvanced features (The Org Manual)Advanced features (The Org Manual)