Ethersheet – An open-source collaborative spreadsheet

Re:Ethersheet – An open-source collaborative spreadsheet by cooperq on Monday October 13, 2014 @07:08PM (#8451157)

The undo functionality is actually almost there, I think we just don't have an interface for it. The arrow keys thing should be easy to implement. I will add it to github, and of course accept a pull request! We definitely need to accept ranges for formulas or some up with some easy way to do that.

The project as a whole is definitely unfinished but we have been working on it for so long and lost some motivation. I wanted to just get it out there to at least re-motivate myself to work on it.

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Re:Ethersheet – An open-source collaborative spreadsheet by beefman on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @12:44AM (#8452006)

Please note, I don't think all the features I listed are desirable. (Pie menus for dragging gestures? Pretty hokey.)

Ethersheet allows typing ranges in formulas and that is possibly enough. Dragging to choose a range can be nice but it has to be implemented carefully. When to stop acquiring cells for the range and return focus to the formula editor? Some versions of Excel do this badly. For example, after dragging to enter a range you use arrow keys to balance parens. Excel thinks you are still selecting cells and inserts multiple ranges into your formula.

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