From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 20:51:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA16561 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from iworks.InterWorks.org (deischen@iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA16549 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from deischen@localhost) by iworks.InterWorks.org (8.7.5/) id WAA15424; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 22:51:01 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199702200451.WAA15424@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 22:51:01 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" To: obrien@antares.aero.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: text editors Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@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". > > > >Mike O'Brien > > Has anyone ever ported it to FreeBSD... I've got an old set of sources > from the early SysIII and SysV days somewhere... I missed the first part of this message and didn't know if the editor could be X-based or not. If you want rectangular cut-and-paste, and an X/Motif editor is acceptable, you should try nedit. It's in ports and packages statically linked with the Motif lib. In nedit-4.0.3, you can actually see the selected rectangular region of text as it is dragged (you can cut and paste too). I thought emacs has rectangular cut and paste too... If you want to try nedit, I can send you an X resource file that will give it better colors/fonts/etc than the default resources. Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org