🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 25 Jul 1993 17:49:26 LCL Mark D. H. Miller said:
>FYI, "column editing" is available for VM/CMS XEDIT via the
>  COLEDIT macros developed at Penn State and retrievable from
>  LISTSERV@PSUVM    as   COLEDIT PACKAGE.
>  Refer to  PSUTOOLS FILELIST  from LISTSERV@PSUVM.

And by Linda Littleton no less!

>I have used the package regularly for several years.  It is  quite
>useful but isn't all that different from "block-mode" editing
>on KEDIT.  I like them both for different problems.

Sounds like it's time to implement it in Kedit...

>   COLEDIT creates a horizontal "prefix area" that can be used to perform
>   vertical operations.  This prefix area consists of the character '.'.
>   The commands described below can be entered by overtyping the '.' on
>   this line.

The implementation of that "headix" ;-) is especially nice!
And setting VERIFY, ZONE & TABS too.  Great!  VERIFY as vertical
version of EXCLUDE.  Do I see correctly that SHOW (inverse of
EXCLUDE) is not supported?
Sorting up/down with the angle brackets too!  Seeing the angle
brackets made me think of how to do vertical shifting, which doesn't
seem to be supported, but could be done by using the "+" to shift
downwards, and "-" upwards.

Sounds like a real *fun* macro!  (Off to get the pkg.)


Regards.
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