sc-im

Christian Külker

0.1.2

2024-02-01

Introduction

SC-IM, or Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised, is a modern reincarnation of the classic spreadsheet calculator tool, originally known as SC. This Linux-based application inherits its foundational design from the original SC, developed by James Gosling and Mark Weiser, and further enhanced by Chuck Martin. SC-IM stands out as a vim-like, ncurses-based spreadsheet program, tailored for users who appreciate the efficiency and keyboard-driven operation typical of the Vim editor.

Releases

As of January 31, 2024, the most recent version of SC-IM is v0.8.3, released on January 12, 2023. This version can be downloaded from http://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im. As of this writing, there are no official Debian packages available for this release.

Build From Source Debian 12 Bookworm [0.1.1]

Dependencies

Before initiating the build process, ensure that all necessary dependencies are installed. On Debian 12 Bookworm, the required dependencies can be installed using the following command:

# Choose from lua5.4 lua5.3 lua5.2 lua5.1
aptitude install yacc ncurses-dev bison gcc make pkg-config \
                 libxlsxwriter-dev libxml2-dev libzip-dev lua5.4

Build

As root

mkdir -p /srv/{src,build}
chown $USER:$GROUP /srv/{src,build}

As $USER

cd /srv/src
wget https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/archive/refs/tags/v0.8.3.tar.gz
cd /srv/build
tar xvzf ../src/v0.8.3.tar.gz
cd sc-im-0.8.3
# You might have a look at src/Makefile to match your architecture. For me and
# Debian 12 it seems to match
make -C src
make: Entering directory '/srv/build/sc-im-0.8.3/src'
yacc -d gram.y
mv y.tab.c gram.c
sed -f eres.sed < gram.y > experres.h
sed -f sres.sed < gram.y > statres.h
[...]
make: Leaving directory '/srv/build/sc-im-0.8.3/src

You will find sc-im in /srv/build/sc-im-0.8.3/src.

Optionally you might install it with make -C src install (not tested).

Features

Some major features are:

  • Undo, redo
  • Markdown export
  • CSV import
  • ODS import
  • Color support
  • Wide character support (Japanese, …)
  • GNUPlot interaction

For more features, see the github repository

Sources

Debian

There is a Debian package, but only available in testing (trixie) and unstable (sid).

Debian Version
Sid 0.8.3+ds-3
Trixie 0.8.3+ds-3+b1:riscv64
12 Bookwowrm n.a.

History

Version Date Notes
0.1.2 2024-02-01 Add Debian section
0.1.1 2024-01-31 Introduction, Build Debian 12
0.1.0 2022-12-11 Initial release
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