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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:05:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: text editors
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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.