From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Complexity of using spreadsheet functionality (was: Calculate differences of remote table numbers) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 18:16:35 +0200 Message-ID: <2018-10-08T18-11-03@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <2018-10-01T16-59-13@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <2018-10-08T17-11-05@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Reply-To: Karl Voit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47105) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9YDA-0000Dw-Gj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:16:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9YD7-0002Mm-En for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:16:48 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=58341 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9YD7-0002MC-6q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:16:45 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9YAx-000708-QE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:14:31 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Monday, 8 Oct 2018 at 17:19, Karl Voit wrote: >> Unfortunately, I have to admit that spreadsheets in Org are not >> something I can recommend to somebody who needs "something that just >> works" (like Excel-switcher). :-( > > Maybe not but the combination of "It's all text", Emacs calc, and > LaTeX export is unbeatable for me. I've not used any other > spreadsheet in years! I do think that we all agree on that. But it's more "I accept the nasty issues I have while creating complex spreadsheet stuff because I got tons of advantages elsewhere in this tool" instead of "hey, you're using Excel. Wanna switch to Org/calc because it offers equivalent spreadsheet functionality on top of many other advantages". You have to use Org for a while in order to be able to grasp the large universe of possibilities. It's really not that easy to explain or show. It's something you have to experience IMHO. And after you had this epiphany, you accept even hard to do things like complex calc references. -- get mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML into Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < Personal Information Management > http://Karl-Voit.at/tags/pim/ Emacs-related > http://Karl-Voit.at/tags/emacs/