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.

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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Hi,
you could use joe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor

agree with you normanlinux, everyone loves the easy way. But if you know how things work in the background, it will be easy also to manipulate things and when things go wrong you know exactly what to do.

How do you proceed when you work over SSH? With -X is far ok for you? (in regard to net connection)

Me, I like that apps are extremely fast

actually it depends on circumstances, of course I love the easy way. But I am lazy, if there's a need to automate to make things easier it's better to write a script or program.

Sure this is what does PIM manager. It saves you lot lot of precious time. here a shot.

Save your precious time using nice software. You probably
surf already too much, right?

I use ntimetracker. It gives me an estimation on my time spending, to keep busy on most important tasks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYPGcuCOvyA

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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.)

Wordgrinder is a good one:

http://wordgrinder.sourceforge.net/

Thank you.

I noticed this software. Here the description.
I read about it, but I do not clearly what is the particularity. It is a regular, normal, and quite basic editor, right? Why not using JOE or Elvis and then converting to doc or rtf?