On 2005-01-06, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Hansen wrote:
>
> [...]
>>
>> But the whole argument is fairly moot... I've needed a rectangle
>> operation only once in the last ten years, and if I hadn't known at
>> the time that my editor could do it (and spent about half an hour
>> figuring out how it worked), I could have written a utility to
>> do the job faster if I'd been using Python at the time...
>
> Or even used cut(1) from the command line.
IIRC, that was the first thing suggested. Using rectangular
operations in an editor was a ways down the list of alternatives.
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