[comp.emacs] rectangular operations in various editors

chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (07/07/88)

GNU can do it; MicroEmacs can do it; and we have macros for
Gosling/Unipress Emacs to do it (`picture mode', by Bruce Israel).
Even vi should be able to do it, if you are willing to wait for it to
simulate a Turing machine simulating Emacs! :-)  [ref old posting in
comp.unix.wizards, which had vi running a Turing machine]  And of
course the [G]Rand editor has no trouble at all with rectangles.

It might be shorter to list which visual editors available for Unix
can *not* do rectangular operations....
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yuval@taux01.UUCP (Gideon Yuval) (07/07/88)

> GNU can do it; MicroEmacs can do it; and we have macros for
> Gosling/Unipress Emacs to do it (`picture mode', by Bruce Israel).

Could you (or Bruce Israel) post them on the net (or E-mail to me?)



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bruce@hpcvra.HP.COM (Bruce Stephens) (07/08/88)

It's nice to know that rectangular moves are available for
all these versions of emacs; however, if I don't have them
on my system I can't use them.  I would like versions for
Goslings/Unipress and MicroEmacs.  Could someone post them
or e-mail them to me also?

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