Re:Ask HN: IDE versus Text Editor?
by Niten on Saturday December 20, 2008 @05:13AM
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> Funny, I actually do use Excel a lot to edit a lot of these things
How is that even possible? I'm not trying to be snarky or anything, I seriously want to know what your workflow is. It never would have occurred to me to use Excel for editing SQL queries; and as for Lisp or config file or HTML... how?
Re:Ask HN: IDE versus Text Editor?
by breck on Saturday December 20, 2008 @05:31AM
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A lot of what I do is taking data from one source(ie an HTML table) and throwing it into a database. Sometimes cutting/pasting into excel, then quickly formatting it, is easier than writing a regex to get it done.
How is that even possible? I'm not trying to be snarky or anything, I seriously want to know what your workflow is. It never would have occurred to me to use Excel for editing SQL queries; and as for Lisp or config file or HTML... how?