The discussion here has me thinking of the many times I just use a simple plain text editor or notes app on my phone, when what I really needed was a lightning fast, minimal spreadsheet.

Does anyone know of such a software? Can read multiple types (csv/xlsx/maybe even m files or npy?), Does not do automatic conversions, simple editing and minimal calculation capabilities?

Sort of the vim/notepad++ of spreadsheets

sc-im (https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/)? It might have too many or too few features, depending on your point of view.