Visual Cell Editor

Vicel is a free open source TUI spreadsheet editor. You can read, modify and save data stored in rows and columns. It aims to be an alternative to proprietary non gratis well known Microsoft program, for non professional usage.

Webpage: https://wiki.hugocoto.com/projects/vicel

The previous image does not show the latest version of vicel.

Features

• Edit CSV-like grids interactively in your terminal
• Supports numbers, text, and formulas
• Keyboard-focused Vim-style motions
• Lightweight and minimal code
• Configuration via .py file
• Mouse support

Reference manual

Documentation and installation/usage guide are here. Direct download link

How to install

You can install it with make. make creates the debug mode executable. make clean install creates the release executable an moves it to ~/.local/bin.

How to host vicel in the browser

You can use ttyd to host a pty in the browser. Using the script ./web/start.sh you would have vicel running in http://localhost:8080.

cd web 
./start

Lines of Code

Lines written A little reflection: the fewer the lines, the better. I like to flex on how little code is needed for a fully functional program.

Status

It’s kinda usable for now.

Sheets done by the community

• Horario by @hugoocoto
• Weatherdata