Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:05:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org>, sol@deepwell.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text editors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970219230349.17989B-100000@dolphin.inna.net> In-Reply-To: <199702200141.MAA14104@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > Mike O'Brien stands accused of saying: > > > 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". > > Qedit can, and I suspect that Crisp can too. Jordan will now tell us > how to write an elisp macro that can cut arbitrarily polygonal regions > and transform them into other, different, regions when pasted. esc-x non-euclidian? Jamie Bowden Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.
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