Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]

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Subject	Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max]
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On 2013-07-31, Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I don't understand.  That just moves them to a different file --
>> doesn't it?  You've still got to deal with editing a large table of
>> data (for example when I want to add instructions to your assembler).
>
> My guess is it would be more foolproof to edit that stuff with a
> spreadsheet.

Many years ago, I worked with somebody who used a spreadsheet like
that.  I tried it and found it to be way too cumbersome. The overhead
involved of putting tables in to slew of different files and starting
up LibreOffice to edit/view them is huge compared to just editing them
with emacs in a file along with the source code.  Maybe my computer is
too old/slow.  Maybe it's just due to how bad I am at Excel/LibreOffice...

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Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-31 13:39 -0500
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-31 19:02 +0000
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-31 14:35 -0500
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 01:50 +0100
      Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-08-01 14:04 +0000
      Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-02 02:15 -0700
    Re: Editing tabular data Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-02 16:35 +1000
      Re: Editing tabular data rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 09:58 -0700
    LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-02 17:14 +1000
    Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-02 10:37 +0100
      Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-02 14:00 +0000
    Re: LibreOffice Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-02 21:26 -0400
    Re: LibreOffice David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-08-03 11:08 -0400
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2013-07-31 20:03 +0100
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-07-31 19:07 +0000
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2013-07-31 13:37 -0700
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2013-07-31 18:40 -0500

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