kuator / sc-im

SC-IM - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

SC-IM

SC-IM is a spreadsheet program that is based on SC (http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/sc-7.16.tar.gz) SC original authors are James Gosling and Mark Weiser, and mods were later added by Chuck Martin.

Some of the features of SC-IM

• UNDO / REDO.
• 65.536 rows and 702 columns supported. (The number of rows can be expanded to 1.048.576 if wished).
• CSV / TAB delimited / XLSX file import and export.
• Scripting support with LUA. Also with triggers and c dynamic linked modules.
• Clipboard support.
• GNUPlot interaction.
• Key-mappings.
• Sort of rows.
• Filter of rows.
• Subtotals.
• Cell shifting.
• 256 color support - screen colors can be customized by user, even at runtime.
• Colorize cells or give them format such as bold or underline.
• Wide character support. The following alphabets are supported: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Japanese, Chinese.
• Autobackup.
• Implement external functions in the language you prefer and use them in SC-IM.
• Use SC-IM as a non-interactive calculator, reading its input from a external script.
• More movements commands implemented !
• Input and Output was completely rewritten.

About the name, the idea is that the program can be identified as another vim-like app. SC-IM stands for Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised. :-)

Installation

Dependencies

• Requirements:

  • ncurses (best if compiled with wide chars support)
  • bison or yacc
  • gcc
  • make
  • pkg-config and which (for make to do its job)

• Optionals:

  • tmux / xclip / pbpaste (for clipboard copy/paste)
  • gnuplot (for plots)
  • libxlsxreader (for xls support)
  • xlsxwriter (for xlsx export support)
  • libxml-2.0 and libzip (for xlsx import support)
  • lua (for Lua scripting)
  • threads support (in case you want to test this in Minix, just disable autobackup and HAVE_PTHREAD)

Manual

• Edit src/Makefile according to your system and needs:

    vim src/Makefile

• Run make:

    make -C src

• Optional: You can install the binary sc-im in your system by typing with a privileged user:

    make -C src install

Building on OS X

You can follow the instructions as above, but if you would like Lua scripting support, you will need to install Lua 5.1, which you can do with,

    brew install lua@5.1

And then follow the instructions as above.

Homebrew for OSX users

brew tap nickolasburr/pfa
brew install sc-im

Ubuntu with XLSX import & export

See this wiki page.

Configuration

The scimrc file can be used to configure SC-IM. The file should be placed in the ~/.config/sc-im directory.

Here is an example ~/.config/sc-im/scimrc :

set autocalc
set numeric
set numeric_decimal=0
set overlap
set xlsx_readformulas

Other configuration variables are listed in the help file.

Helping us

Want to help? You can help us with one or more of the following:

• giving SC-IM a star in GitHub
• taking screenshots / creating screencasts showing SC-IM
• making a donation (see below).

Donations

You can help SC-IM development by making a DONATION with PayPal.

If you wish to make a donation, please click the above button or just send money to [e-mail] via PayPal, choosing "Goods and Services".

Thanks!