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Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal

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Why This Matters

The latest release of sc-im highlights ongoing community-driven development of a powerful, terminal-based spreadsheet tool that offers extensive features like scripting, color customization, and large data support. Its open-source nature and unique capabilities make it a valuable resource for developers, data analysts, and tech enthusiasts seeking lightweight, customizable spreadsheet solutions in a terminal environment.

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NOTE 05/21/2025:

New release v0.8.5 - This project needs your help! This is a one person project and have very little sponsoring. I want to still maintain and develop sc-im, but I am the only income in my family and its becoming difficult to work as much as I would want. If you can make a donation (see at the bottom), please do. Your help would be really appreciated!! Thanks.

Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised, aka sc-im, is an ncurses based, vim-like spreadsheet calculator.

sc-im is based on sc, whose original authors are James Gosling and Mark Weiser, and mods were later added by Chuck Martin.

Some of the features of sc-im

Vim movements commands for editing cell content.

UNDO / REDO.

65.536 rows and 702 columns supported. (The number of rows can be expanded to 1.048.576 if wished).

CSV / TAB delimited / XLSX file import and export. ODS import. Markdown export.

Key-mappings.

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