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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 10 Nov 1999.
Re: Puzzle time....

Re: Puzzle time....

From Krogg <kro...@gtcom.net> · alt.ascii-art · 10 Nov 1999 00:00 · View full thread · report
Shaun Mead wrote:
> 
> ??? What is block mode. Thanks for telling me.
Its where you can cut and paste rectangular
blocks of text anywhere on the screen.


Most text editors only let you select text


consider the following peice of text,

123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567

most text editors would only let you select text
like so,
12345678901234#######################################4
####################################################
#########################67890123456789012345678901234567
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567


and the paste would looke like so,

5678901234567890123456789012345678901234
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
1234567890123456789012345

But with a block select you could do this,

12345678901234###########67890123456789012345678901234
12345678901234###########678901234567890123456789012
12345678901234###########67890123456789012345678901234567
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567

and paste the block any where you like like so.



   56789012345
   56789012345
   56789012345 <----Here


                      56789012345
                      56789012345
                      56789012345     <----or Here



56789012345
56789012345  <----or Here         56789012345
56789012345                       56789012345   <----or Here
                                  56789012345


                56789012345
                56789012345
                56789012345   <----or Here


It makes lots of things a lot easier and less time consuming.





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