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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Oct 1996.
Re: Editor for "ASCII-Drawing"?

Re: Editor for "ASCII-Drawing"?

Bob Hutson (rf...@netcom.com) wrote --
> Please let me know of any vi clones you know of that support
> rectangular yank/puts.  I have been wanting this feature for a long
> long time.  Thanks in advance.
 
It's not vi, but it has more clones than you can shake a stick at.
It will delete, move, or copy a rectangle, which it calls a "column
block."  A rectangle can shove existing text over, or replace it.
 
In Column Block mode, you can combine this:
 
.-----.---.---.
| Tab | Q | W |
:-----`.--`.--'.
| Ctrl | A | S |
:------`.--`.--'.
| Shift | Z | X |
`-------`---`---'
 
...with this:
 
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
 
...to get this:
 
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcd.-----.---.---.  efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcd| Tab | Q | W |  efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcd:-----`.--`.--'. efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcd| Ctrl | A | S | efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcd:------`.--`.--'.efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcd| Shift | Z | X |efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcd`-------`---`---'efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
 
...or, with Column Replace on, to get this:
 
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
abcd.-----.---.---.  vwxyz
abcd| Tab | Q | W |  vwxyz
abcd:-----`.--`.--'. vwxyz
abcd| Ctrl | A | S | vwxyz
abcd:------`.--`.--'.vwxyz
abcd| Shift | Z | X |vwxyz
abcd`-------`---`---'vwxyz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
 
Often imitated, never equaled.
 
WordStar.
 
A diamond is forever.
 
Dan Strychalski   dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.tw

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From: dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.tw
Subject: Re: Editor for "ASCII-Drawing"?
Date: 1996/10/23
Message-ID: <54kh7v$ln...@voyager.iii.org.tw>#1/1
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distribution: inet
summary: WordStar!
organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
keywords: ASCII art, editors, rectangle operations
newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.ascii-art
originator: dski@
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