[Gllug] color in xterm emacs

itsbruce at uklinux.net itsbruce at uklinux.net
Thu Jul 3 15:39:49 UTC 2003


On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:14:23AM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Vim lets you do this using blockwise Visual mode or Select mode.

-- 
Bruce

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