Re: programming editor
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On Friday 18 Jun 2004 00:18, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Anders Karlsson wrote:
> > Best editor I have ever used though was CygnusED on the Amiga. 65kB in
> > size and everything you'd expect an editor to do and then some (still
> > have not found an editor that will do a rectangular area cut/paste in
> > the middle of a text). Second to that is FrexxEd (Amiga, OS/2) that
> > had a very nifty virtual disk you could drag/drop files in/out of that
> > opened/saved files in the editor itself. But I digress...
>
> You mean like vim?
>
> Do this:
> 5i12345<ret><esc>4kl<CNTL-V>2j2lxp
>
> Or, long form. 5 rows of "12345", go to 2nd row on the 2, hit
> CNTL-V, down 2, over 2. You'll now mark the middle block of 9 digits.
> x deletes it, p pastes it back in after the 5 so now the middle 3 rows
> read "15234".
Well, CED would just allow you to highlight a rectangular area and Ctrl-C
copied it and Ctrl-V pasted it. :)
I am sure there is an Emacs mode *somewhere* that would allow this. Perhaps
in picture mode it can be done.
Good to know that VIM is capable, even if the key stroke sequence is more
than a little daunting. ;-)
Rgds,
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Anders Karlsson <anders@trudheim.com>
Trudheim Technology Ltd. - Linux System Administrator
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