-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 Jun 2004 00:18, Steve Lamb wrote: > Anders Karlsson wrote: > > Best editor I have ever used though was CygnusED on the Amiga. 65kB in > > size and everything you'd expect an editor to do and then some (still > > have not found an editor that will do a rectangular area cut/paste in > > the middle of a text). Second to that is FrexxEd (Amiga, OS/2) that > > had a very nifty virtual disk you could drag/drop files in/out of that > > opened/saved files in the editor itself. But I digress... > > You mean like vim? > > Do this: > 5i12345<ret><esc>4kl<CNTL-V>2j2lxp > > Or, long form. 5 rows of "12345", go to 2nd row on the 2, hit > CNTL-V, down 2, over 2. You'll now mark the middle block of 9 digits. > x deletes it, p pastes it back in after the 5 so now the middle 3 rows > read "15234".
Well, CED would just allow you to highlight a rectangular area and Ctrl-C copied it and Ctrl-V pasted it. :) I am sure there is an Emacs mode *somewhere* that would allow this. Perhaps in picture mode it can be done. Good to know that VIM is capable, even if the key stroke sequence is more than a little daunting. ;-) Rgds, - -- Anders Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trudheim Technology Ltd. - Linux System Administrator -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0iu+LYywqksgYBoRAlMvAKC4iE1ILAEGR/6ci4pDvrsOxHXlbwCg0SOG CCF3edotEF8cArk5h8w3hoc= =5pRV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
