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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Sep 2001.
Re: Dead or alive...

Re: Dead or alive...

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:26:18 +0100, drsquare <now...@nowhere.co.uk> provoked
the following text:

>>>>> >I feel weird already .. but thats a natural state for me .. i'm used to it :)
>>>>> >I will continue to do my ascii with the windows notepad , textpad or outlook
>>>>> >express's new message window.
>>>>>
>>>>> Use something like WinVI, it's much better. As far as I'm aware,
>>>>> notepad and outlook express don't let you overwrite characters.
>>>>
>>>>Ever tried the INSERT key ?
>>>
>>>Doesn't work in Notepad, and I don't think it does in Outlook Express
>>>either.
>>
>>It does work in OE, but how about using Wordpad with a fixed-width font for
>>editing? INS works in Wordpad.
>
>Because wordpad is crap, and more of a word processor. Only something
>like vi is really suitable for ascii art drawing.

Or Textpad.

>>>>Texpad also supports block editing .. which rocks.
>>>
>>>But does it have proper key bindings like VI?
>>
>>What do you consider to be "proper key bindings"?
>
>Keybindings that are as good as in vi.

download Textpad from http://www.textpad.com/ and you'll see.
-- 
        Peter Punk
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