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From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:36:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735zovd3j.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: X+rbcXQ5ytFVpfnN@protected.rcdrun.com

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> * Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> [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 mode again.

> I have just said my user experience, I am not using org-table-import
> as I find it hackish function low on the scale of usability.

> When importing CSV documents I usually import it into database by
> using the built in PostgreSQL features or Emacs Lisp parsing of
> CSV.

> Org tables I used mostly for transactions but not any more as it does
> not scale up with many people, it becomes hell and it would be tedious
> or impossible to teach any staff on distance on how to use it. There
> is no collaboration.

> PostgreSQL offers collaboration feature with its server model right
> out of the box and staff member on distance can enter their
> transactions straight. So I replaced Org mode tables with database
> backed. Right tool for right purpose.


Interesting. I only import and export xls(x) files, with say 300 column
and say 4 columns containing marks of students. For this purpose the
export and import functions via csv work fine and I have the benefit of
using the power of Emacs to edit the list. The spreadsheet functionality
offered by org (via calc) is enough for me.


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-29 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-28 15:18 Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-28 16:21 ` Daniel Martín
2020-12-28 16:51   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-28 17:39   ` Filipp Gunbin
2020-12-28 19:47   ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 21:06     ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-29  7:32       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 15:36         ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2020-12-28 19:36 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 19:55   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-12-28 20:37     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 11:51       ` Stefan Nobis
2020-12-29 13:41         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-30 22:19         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-31 12:17           ` Stefan Nobis
2021-01-02  0:48             ` Samuel Wales
2020-12-29  0:06   ` andres.ramirez
2020-12-29  2:29     ` Carson Chittom
2020-12-28 20:12 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-29 10:07   ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-29  4:02 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-29  4:53   ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-29  7:49     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 14:47       ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-29 14:59         ` Greg Minshall
2020-12-29 15:34         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 17:54         ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-29 23:39           ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-30  3:06             ` Robert Thorpe
2021-01-08 14:07         ` H. Dieter Wilhelm

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