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. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Is this ANYWHERE, at USA? visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list