[Gllug] color in xterm emacs

[Richard Cohen]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, 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 does select by line, select by character or select by block - it's not
quite select by column, but it would have largely the same effect, I
think...

Cheers
Richard

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