Is there an "excel" mode that can connect cells with arrows?
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sajmunko · 2022-05-24 08:19

Hi,

I'm new to emacs.

I use Excel to connect cells with arrows, [like
this](https://imgur.com/a/IQRCfeJ).

Is there any emacs mode that can do something similar?

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danderzei · 2022-05-24 08:30

Emacs is a text-based environment, so graphical applications as you
showed are not possible. But I am happy to be proven wrong.

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wasamasa · 2022-05-24 11:18

Emacs does support images, but they behave like really tall chunks of
text, not like content layers (like z-index in CSS). So in a way,
you're correct with your assessment.

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danderzei · 2022-05-24 11:29

If Emacs could do css it would have a proper browser

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unhammer · 2022-05-24 11:56

Don't see why not, I mean there's [cellmode](https://www.reddit.com/r/
emacs/comments/rgatjz/cellmode_spreadsheet_mode_for_emacs/) for the
graphical spreadsheet and [eaf-mindmap](https://github.com/emacs-
eaf/eaf-mindmap#eaf-mindmap) for putting lines between boxes

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_viz_ · 2022-05-24 12:09

Doesn't eaf leave the job of rendering to an external client?

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ndamee · 2022-05-24 12:42

You can draw things with text:

> Artist is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw lines,
rectangles, squares, poly-lines, ellipses and circles by using your
mouse and/or keyboard. The shapes are made up with the ascii
characters |, -, / and \.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode#:~:text=Artist%20is%20an%20
Emacs%20lisp,,%20-,%20%2F%20and%20%5C.

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arthurno1 · 2022-05-24 13:09

Yes it does. Anything *eaf* is an external app, usually Qt.

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F4il3d · 2022-05-24 14:35

I have not needed to so I do not know if you can isolate each cell,
but if you can, you could use something like "dot" to draw them with
their associated linkage in org mode like:

`#+BEGIN_SRC dot :file images/test-dot.png :var input=make-dot
:exports results`
`graph {`
 `$input`
`}`
`#+END_SRC`

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MitchellMarquez42 · 2022-05-24 16:45

Are you just connecting them visually, or do you need to program some
mathematical relationship between them?

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danderzei · 2022-05-24 18:25

The EAF is not Emacs but a collection of Python programs that use
Emacs as a display manager. These programs have limited
interoperability with Emacs modes.

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[deleted] · 2022-05-25 08:10

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sajmunko · 2022-05-25 08:10

Just visually