Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Hongyi Zhao writes: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jean Louis wrote: >> >> * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 07:55]: >> > From this point of view, if we want to have both full-features and >> > powerful capabilities in manipulating spreadsheet, it seems that only >> > the python based programmatic

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

angels fear to tread but imo the degree to which one can say /a priori/ that a personal ui preference is "WRONG" can have limits? org spreadsheets can have strengths and weaknesses. whether they matter depends on the user. example: for me, they are: - i use them infrequently and have to learn

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Jean Louis writes: > You speak of a programming language and what is possible with > programming language. That's not the point. Org table is integrated with Calc and Calc is a Computer Algebra System. That is something like Excel combined with Mathematica (with a little less GUI stuff) - that

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Dear Stefan, You speak of a programming language and what is possible with programming language. But language is not a spreadsheet, an integrated program that helps users with handling of data. The Gnumeric as spreadsheet may be extended by using Python programming language. In that sense I

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Hongyi Zhao writes: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 1:55 AM Robert Thorpe > wrote: >> >> Hongyi Zhao writes: >> >> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jean Louis wrote: >> >> >> >> * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 07:55]: >> >> > From this point of view, if we want to have both full-features and >> >> >

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 1:55 AM Robert Thorpe wrote: > > Hongyi Zhao writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jean Louis wrote: > >> > >> * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 07:55]: > >> > From this point of view, if we want to have both full-features and > >> > powerful capabilities in

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Hongyi Zhao writes: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jean Louis wrote: >> >> * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 07:55]: >> > From this point of view, if we want to have both full-features and >> > powerful capabilities in manipulating spreadsheet, it seems that only >> > the python based programmatic

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

* Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 17:49]: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jean Louis wrote: > > > > * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 07:55]: > > > From this point of view, if we want to have both full-features and > > > powerful capabilities in manipulating spreadsheet, it seems that only > > > the python

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

> * Uwe Brauer [2020-12-29 00:07]: > Directory of businesses with their names and addresses in CSV > format. It is not the only file that would have those problems. One > way to go could be not to use Org mode, but to use org-table-importa > as that is then much faster, and then to turn on org

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Hongyi Zhao, > I use Linux as my working environment exclusively. So, I can't access > the native MS Office supplied for macOS/Windows. But I sometimes > really need to manipulate and process MS Office documents, especially > DOCX and XLSX files. Though there are some free and open source office

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jean Louis wrote: > > * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 07:55]: > > From this point of view, if we want to have both full-features and > > powerful capabilities in manipulating spreadsheet, it seems that only > > the python based programmatic tools/packages, say, openpyxl

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Stefan, I agree with everything you said! For me, the fact that you have a full computer algebra system (in the form of Calc) *and* Lisp behind the scenes in org makes org tables incredibly more powerful than any spreadsheet calculator I have ever seen or used. The only issue is the possibly

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Jean Louis writes: > I find Org tables useful for small reports. Just as table mode is > also useful within Emacs. Org tables are primitives that are not > comparable to spreadsheet software. It might be a difficult question, whether Org tables are the best solution in a given situation or

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

On Monday, 28 Dec 2020 at 21:12, Uwe Brauer wrote: > You can export and import them to org files, without the excel formula > of course > > (defun org-table-import-xlsx-to-csv-org () [...] I use these functions all the time. Work well for me for spreadsheets where it's the data that matters.

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

* Uwe Brauer [2020-12-29 00:07]: > >>> "JL" == Jean Louis writes: > > > * Daniel Martín [2020-12-28 19:22]: > >> Hongyi Zhao writes: > >> > >> > Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly > >> > from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of > >>

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

* Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 07:55]: > From this point of view, if we want to have both full-features and > powerful capabilities in manipulating spreadsheet, it seems that only > the python based programmatic tools/packages, say, openpyxl > , can meet the

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:02 PM Robert Thorpe wrote: > > Hongyi Zhao writes: > > > Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly > > from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of > > orgmode? > > People here have suggested lots of things. > > It

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Hongyi Zhao writes: > Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly > from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of > orgmode? People here have suggested lots of things. It depends on the application. Jean Louis is correct to say that Emacs

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 6:06 PM, andres.ramirez wrote: > Hi. Jean Louis. > > > "Jean" == Jean Louis writes: > > Jean> You have high expectations but Emacs Org mode does not nearly > replace the capabilities of > Jean> a dedicated spreadsheet. > > Emacs has an spreadsheet mode

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Hi. Jean Louis. > "Jean" == Jean Louis writes: Jean> You have high expectations but Emacs Org mode does not nearly replace the capabilities of Jean> a dedicated spreadsheet. Emacs has an spreadsheet mode builtin: --8<---cut here---start->8---

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

>>> "JL" == Jean Louis writes: > * Daniel Martín [2020-12-28 19:22]: >> Hongyi Zhao writes: >> >> > Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly >> > from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of >> > orgmode? >> >> Not directly, but you could

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

* Daniele Nicolodi [2020-12-28 22:56]: > On 28/12/2020 20:36, Jean Louis wrote: > > * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-28 18:19]: > >> Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly > >> from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of > >> orgmode? > > > > You have

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

>>> "HZ" == Hongyi Zhao writes: > Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly > from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of > orgmode? You can export and import them to org files, without the excel formula of course (defun

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

On 28/12/2020 20:36, Jean Louis wrote: > * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-28 18:19]: >> Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly >> from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of >> orgmode? > > You have high expectations but Emacs Org mode does not nearly

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

* Daniel Martín [2020-12-28 19:22]: > Hongyi Zhao writes: > > > Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly > > from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of > > orgmode? > > Not directly, but you could first save the Excel spreadsheet as CSV and >

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

* Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-28 18:19]: > Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly > from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of > orgmode? You have high expectations but Emacs Org mode does not nearly replace the capabilities of a dedicated

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

On 28/12/2020 17:21 +0100, Daniel Martín wrote: > Hongyi Zhao writes: > >> Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly >> from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of >> orgmode? > > Not directly, but you could first save the Excel spreadsheet as

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Hongyi Zhao writes: > Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly > from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of > orgmode? Not directly, but you could first save the Excel spreadsheet as CSV and then import it into Org-Mode using M-x

Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

>> Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly >> from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of >> orgmode? > > Not directly, but you could first save the Excel spreadsheet as CSV and > then import it into Org-Mode using M-x org-table-import. There's

Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of orgmode? Regards -- Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao Theory and Simulation of Materials Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering NO. 552