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Elinks was still quite active[1] until 2 years ago any contributions were stopped.

For spreadsheets there is sc-im. For presentations in terminal there are termimad (in Rust)[3], mdp[4], and patat[5]. For files management vifm[6] is the best one, if you got used to Vim already.

And one more important thing - don't forget to setup true colors[7] in your terminal.

[1] https://repo.or.cz/elinks.git/shortlog

[2] https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

[3] https://github.com/Canop/termimad

[4] https://github.com/visit1985/mdp

[5] https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat

[6] https://github.com/vifm/vifm

[7] https://github.com/termstandard/colors/

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And Emacs (can work in console mode) offer alternatives for nearly everything you mentioned :)

Spreadheets[0], presentation[1], files management[2], true colors.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/ses.html

[1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/non-beamer-presentati...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Di...

wow ses really blew my mind. I didnt know that emacs has a spreadsheet buitin. where do you find all those hidden goodies? is there a lost manual of emacs where they are listed?

See also Org Mode, which has basic[0] spreadsheet capabilities[1].

> is there a lost manual of emacs where they are listed?

That first link GP posted is literally a link to the Emacs manual[2]. Emacs and its info pages are something I also ignored for years, but one day I finally realized that I'm doing a disservice to myself by not reading manuals. Nowadays, I try to always read whatever official documentation there is for anything I work with more frequently; in some cases cover to cover. It's worth it.

[0] - by basic I mean basic, until you learn enough Emacs to supercharge them; then there aren't so basic anymore.

[1] - https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-intro...

[2] - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/; it also ships with Emacs, so you can read it off-line; just use M-x info.

Also web browsing, mail reading/sending, authoring. Emacs can handle essentially everything in the article. It's a perfect middle ground - not 1D like pure CLI, not "bitmap" like TUIs (ncurses-based in particular), which are essentially rendering bitmaps on the screen, but in ASCII, not a point&click GUI. Emacs gives you a 2D text GUI, in which almost everything interoperates with everything else, and things like searching through or editing whatever 2D interface you have on screen aren't weird, but normal.

For nearly a decade I did most of my online reading through Elinks. It was comfortable for me to read things and always have a consistent font, size, color and no distractions. Sadly I haven't been able to as much in the past few years as more and more sites require JS or some TLS that isn't supported.

+1 for patat. If you can live with its limitations, it is by far the most pleasant presentation writing experience I know of.

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