Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:11:48 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: obrien@antares.aero.org (Mike O'Brien) Cc: sol@deepwell.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: text editors Message-ID: <199702200141.MAA14104@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199702192151.NAA26575@antares.aero.org> from Mike O'Brien at "Feb 19, 97 01:51:10 pm"
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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. > Mike O'Brien -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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