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sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

41 mentions on Hacker News by 35 people: 8 stories, 33 comments · first 2016-09-24 · latest 2026-04-27

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  1. …few other terminal based spreadsheet people have been doing over the last few years. Most notably: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im Has been in HN often, most recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662658 New takes:…
    comment by nhatcher · 2026-04-27 · in L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility
  2. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im Saved you all a search: It seems like it is similar software written in C
    comment by cassepipe · 2026-04-27 · in Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings
  3. Nice. I've been using https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im for a while now. It would be great with a comparison.
    comment by slu · 2026-04-27 · in Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings
  4. …repos though, so you might have to build it yourself[1]. It's also a bit buggy currently. [1]: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/wiki/Building-sc%E2%80...
    comment by freedomben · 2026-04-06 · in Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal
  5. …help contribute if maintainers are willing. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457009 [2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/wiki/Building-sc%E2%80...
    comment by freedomben · 2026-04-06 · in Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal
  6. …space [0], and one of the more innovative (still from a hot-second ago now…) [1]. All the best, 0. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im 1. https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/
    comment by halosghost · 2026-04-06 · in Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool
  7. …line spreadsheets: https://github.com/drclcomputers/GoSheet https://github.com/xi/spreadsheet/ https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im https://github.com/saulpw/visidata https://github.com/bgreenwell/xleak…
    comment by pstuart · 2026-03-20 · in VisiCalc Reconstructed
  8. …when I have time I'll try and dig in deeper. Added a doc to the wiki in case it's helpful to other: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/wiki/Building-sc%E2%80...
    comment by freedomben · 2026-03-20 · in VisiCalc Reconstructed
  9. There is SC and now sc-im: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im You can also literally run Lotus 123 if you want. Someone has binaries to make it work on linux. or under dosemu
    comment by zie · 2026-03-20 · in VisiCalc Reconstructed
  10. For anyone interested in a terminal driven spreadsheet, SC-IM[1] was mentioned on HN recently. 1. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by Lio · 2024-08-10 · in VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003)
  11. …is sc-im, which is the closest you'll get to a full spreadsheet app in terminal with vi controls. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by snidane · 2024-01-06 · in Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV
  12. …tools I have successfully used in the past are sc-im and the (neo)vim plugin vim-table-mode: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/ https://github.com/dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode Back then I stopped using sc-im because it could not…
    comment by franek · 2024-01-06 · in Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV
  13. …teapot : https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/ visicalc : https://www.visidata.org/ sc-m : https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im or mix files & manipulating 'spreadsheet' text files, gawk[4], webawk[5], python awk[6]. not as compact as…
    comment by sargstuff · 2023-12-10 · in Ask HN: Does anyone teach spreadsheet architecture?
  14. sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by teleforce · 2023-10-15 · in Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
  15. …this one which can import/export xls and xlsx, use GNUPlot for graphing and Lua for scripting. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im Already packaged in Debian and Alpine, possibly others.
    comment by squarefoot · 2023-05-04 · in Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux
  16. I've been meaning to check out sc-im ("Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised" https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im ) for a while now. Among its listed features: > GNUPlot interaction. > Scripting support with LUA. Also with triggers and c…
    comment by sundarurfriend · 2022-06-02 · in Modern CSV Version 2 Beta is now available
  17. SC-IM is a terminal based spreadsheet. It is the modern version of visicalc. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by thomasfl · 2022-04-06 · in VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (1999)
  18. …have suggestions for how to get teapot to click, or suggestions for other terminal spreadsheets? https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by quag · 2021-11-16 · in Teapot: Type-Safe 3D Spreadsheet
  19. sc-im ( https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/ )? It might have too many or too few features, depending on your point of view.
    comment by fdgdd · 2021-10-26 · in Tinysheet
  20. > 5. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im if I want > a TUI. This is closest to what you were asking for. Thank you! Yes, this seems to be almost perfect. I cannot believe that there is no "arbitrary string search" feature, but I can grep…
    comment by dotancohen · 2020-10-31 · in Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1
  21. …if I want to quickly munge some data or extract a field. 4. Gnumeric if I want a GUI. 5. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im if I want a TUI. This is closest to what you were asking for.
    comment by walrus · 2020-10-30 · in Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1
  22. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im SC-IM - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
    comment by laktak · 2020-07-30 · in Luckysheet, an open-source spreadsheet
  23. …you should give sc-im a go. It's no excel but a good enough spreadsheet with vim like keybindings. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by devnonymous · 2020-07-01 · in How Did Vim Become So Popular?
  24. …forget to setup true colors[7] in your terminal. [1] https://repo.or.cz/elinks.git/shortlog [2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im [3] https://github.com/Canop/termimad [4] https://github.com/visit1985/mdp [5]…
    comment by xvilka · 2019-06-28 · in Without a GUI: How to Live Entirely in a Terminal
  25. …support, and is available on github [2] . [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Easy-As [2] - https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by watchdogtimer · 2019-06-27 · in Mitch Kapor Introduces Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet (1983) [video]
  26. Modernized version of sc: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by sprash · 2018-12-18 · in Implementing VisiCalc (2015)
  27. Checkout command line based spreadsheet editor. sc-im( https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im ) if you are heavy vim user, you would definitely love it
    comment by mohitmun · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  28. There is also SC ( https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699 ) and the similarly named https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im But I'm happily reaching out to gawk most of the time for CSV processing.
    comment by hiperlink · 2018-11-10 · in Turn Vim into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data (2013)
  29. Checkout sc-im( https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im ) if you are heavy vim user, you would definitely love it
    comment by mohitmun · 2018-11-10 · in Turn Vim into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data (2013)
  30. …improved version of sc with features including undo/redo and csv/tsv export and import is sc-im ( https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im ).
    comment by watchdogtimer · 2018-11-10 · in Turn Vim into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data (2013)
  31. I found the bindings. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/blob/freeze/src/doc
    comment by voxadam · 2018-08-16 · in SC-IM: An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
  32. In the same vein, you can also check sc-im: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by marklgr · 2017-06-30 · in Show HN: VisiData – vi for data
  33. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    comment by eterps · 2016-09-24 · in Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?