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From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net>
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To: obrien@antares.aero.org, pechter@shell.monmouth.com
Subject: Re: text editors
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> > 
> > > 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".
> > 

The ``vim'' editor (a super-enhanced vi clone) does this nicely:

  http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/

Dave Bodenstab
imdave@synet.net