From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 19 17:30:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA04606 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 17:30:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from nic.follonett.no (nic.follonett.no [194.198.43.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA04600 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 17:30:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nic.follonett.no (8.8.5/8.8.3) with UUCP id CAA05961; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 02:27:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from oo7 (oo7.dimaga.com [192.0.0.65]) by dimaga.com (8.8.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id BAA20291; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:38:18 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970220013817.00b6cc50@dimaga.com> X-Sender: eivind@dimaga.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:38:18 +0100 To: "Mike O'Brien" From: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: text editors Cc: Sol Rasmussen , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:51 PM 2/19/97 -0800, Mike O'Brien wrote: >> 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". Emacs does this, as well as providing several games and an artificial psychoterapist :) (Emacs does close to everything, but has a user interface with a steep learning and retaining-curve. If you start using the features you'll be addicted and never be able to change to anything else. You'll be frustrated about the things it does badly (which exist), but won't be able to change to anything else.) Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org