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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:32:05 +1100 (EST)
From:      Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
To:        "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org>
Cc:        Sol Rasmussen <sol@deepwell.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: text editors 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970220093048.1874A-100000@profane.iq.org>
In-Reply-To: <199702192151.NAA26575@antares.aero.org>

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> > any suggestions on text editors.  what i am really looking for is cutting
> > and pasting ability.
> 
> 	Ok, I'll enter this fray.  I suggest the Rand editor, because it's the
> only editor I know of that can cut & paste rectangular blocks of text.  I've
> never seen anything better for editing tabular data "in the raw".
> 
> Mike O'Brien
> 

vim does this, along with many other things.




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