From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 19 15:54:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA27182 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:54:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA27173 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:54:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu by albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) with ESMTP id SAA00519; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:56:28 -0500 Received: by kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/4.0) id ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:54:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:54:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199702192354.SAA14517@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: obrien@antares.aero.org CC: sol@deepwell.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199702192151.NAA26575@antares.aero.org> (obrien@antares.aero.org) Subject: Re: text editors From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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 can. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the FSF's, my employer's, or my dog's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped