[Gllug] color in xterm emacs

John Hearns jhearns at freesolutions.net
Thu Jul 3 09:14:23 UTC 2003


> 
> As an aside, I never really used ed, but I did use ex (and EDT
> in line editing mode under VMS -- bleugh!). Screen editors didn't
> really work on a teletype or over a 75 baud modem...
> 
I really liked using a VMS full screen editor.
It had the capability to do column cuts and pastes - ie. you could
select columns of text, as well as rows.

I can't remember then name - anyone???

Do any editors running on Linux offer the same - I think it was dead useful.

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