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Article #2455Re: Arbitrary text blocks (Was: VI??? GROSS!)
From: roger nelson;S23487
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:07
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:07
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>Does any editor allow the user to manipulate truly arbitrary blocks of >text? Vi prefers whole lines of text, some editors permit rectangular >blocks of text, but I have yet to see one that enables me to work with >arbitrary blocks. In what editing situation would this be at all useful? How would you paste the block: concatenating the lines or preserving the orientation of the characters in the polygon?
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!serval!wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu!rnelson From: rnelson@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (roger nelson;S23487) Subject: Re: Arbitrary text blocks (Was: VI??? GROSS!) Message-ID: <1992Nov16.110758.19772@serval.net.wsu.edu> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Washington State University References: <1992Nov16.065935.27173@rc.nokia.fi> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 11:07:58 GMT Lines: 11