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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Spreadsheet display mode
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:23:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IvEpS-0007Oa-3M@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)

Someone suggested that Emacs should have a spreadsheet display mode.
I did some thinking about the idea.  A list of cell definitions could
control how to display each line, and they could go in a `display'
property that might be on an overlay or text property (so that you
could display just a part of the buffer as a spreadsheet).

The actual text would use delimiters to separate cell contents.
The cell definitions could specify what delimiters to use.

What do you think?

             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-22 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-22 16:23 Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-11-22 19:19 ` Spreadsheet display mode Glenn Morris
2007-11-23  4:35   ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-23  1:03 David O'Toole
2007-11-23  8:18 ` Bastien
2007-11-24  3:12   ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-23 12:03 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-23 13:35   ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-24 15:20     ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-23 14:00   ` David O'Toole
2007-11-24  3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-24 11:49   ` David O'Toole
2007-11-24 22:05     ` Richard Stallman
2007-11-25  5:31       ` David O'Toole

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