Re: Column block operations (was: Editor for "ASCII-Drawing"?)
On 23 Oct 1996 dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.tw wrote: >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. > >Often imitated, never equaled. > >WordStar. If you must use vi, get vim: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/ Or elvis: ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/ Both of these vi clones support rectangular operations (columns). However, I must also agree with the second respondent. My personal favorite editor is TSE Pro by SemWare, which has just released a Win32 console mode version of the editor. I have written a CUA/WordStar compatible user interface for the editor that implements the fastest and easiest support for column blocks of any editor that I know of. ----------------------------- Bill Stewart wst...@unm.edu http://www.unm.edu/~wstewart/ -----------------------------
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