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- From: sverre@rc.nokia.fi (Sverre Slotte Jr.)
- Subject: Arbitrary text blocks (Was: VI??? GROSS!)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.065935.27173@rc.nokia.fi>
- Organization: Nokia Research Center, Espoo, Finland
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:59:35 GMT
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- In article Larry W. Virden (lvirden@cas.org) writes:
- >b) vi does indeed not EASILY permit "arbitrary blocks of text". For instance,
- >there is no single simple _vi_ command to allow one to take text such as:
- >
- >
- >Time Cost Purpose
- >
- >4 mins $2.50 Cycles of processing
- >2.5 mins $1.75 Pages of print
-
- 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.
-
- Please enlighten me, dear net-friends. Is there an editor that groks
- blocks like the one below?
-
- ***************.-------------------+**************************
- ****************\******************|********************************
- *****************\*****************|****************************
- ******************\**********.-----+***********************
- *******************\**********\*******************************
- ********************`-----+****\**************************************
- **************************|*****\**************************
- **************************|******|**************************
- **************************+------+****************************
-
- Sverre
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