Terminal Word Processor
Are there word processor/spreadsheet apps for linux that can run in the terminal? Like WordStar or Word Perfect. I am NOT looking for a complex tool like vi, emacs, nor for a simple text editor.
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So you want more than nano but less than vim? And still run through a terminal? I'm not sure something like that exists, but here is a good place to start looking I guess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors Last but not least, vim is probably something good to learn if you run out of options. |
Hi Penguin of Wonder,
I am resurecting this thread since actually in the recent years, there was not so much developments in this direction. You may find herewith a new set of terminal applications. I hope that it may help you. It has few interesting features. The advantage is that you may work on various office documents over SSH and run business applications. Imagine that all works over a regular SSH connection, which means you can work on word processing, TeX, ... Furthermore, it is intended that you process your documents (TeX) much faster since CliTeX allows you to import Tables from Clisheet directly and format them for you. Thus you can write a book easily and faster. The difference with vim and emacs is that it supports accents better, ö,ä,ü, ... than vim in the console and formats tables and figures for you (you get prompted what you get). The color schemes is in further steps of developments since it depends on the putty, xterm, ... Furthermore it allows to run macros over crontab, for RSS, Webwatch, headlines, ... It works on the console/terminal for Windows and Linux. For BSD and Mac, it has not yet been compiled. Contact the dev if you would like to help for newer versions for specific. Few videos have been recently uploaded on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCESFVOU2eS9njYL45K5otFQ - Clisheet - CliTeX - Stardesk nframeos - Cliword ... Best Regards |
Sadly, thses have withered and died as everybody moved to 'What You See Is All You Get' programs.
AFAIK both unix contenders in this field QOffice and the less-polished Uniplex have now disappeared. In the early days of Linux there was a compatibility layer that enabled many programs intended for SCO to run. If this is still available, perhaps you can find an old copy of QOffice for SCO and try it. Cheers |
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Me, I like that apps are extremely fast |
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Looked at your video link. If that is what peple want, it sounds great.
For me, I either want a proper GUI or my trusty zsh, there are so many times when only the command-line will do. (I keep a minimum of 4 tabs open in Konqueror, at present have 6.) I gave up writing curses programs with the move to Linux in '93 since X was so freely available (as opposed to costing an arm and a leg under unix). Mind you, I was already pissed off with curses when I found that my SysV terminfo libraries allowed me to use 20 function keys - but silently dropped events from F12 onwards! (it counted from 0, so this behaviour made even less sense. Would have been easier to understand if it only reacted to first 10; 0-9.) |
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I noticed this software. Here the description. Code:
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