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- From: bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
- Subject: Re: Column Editor ??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.161928.20040@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:19:28 GMT
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- In article <C17Ey4.DCs@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk> chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Chris Brown ) writes:
- >Im looking for an editor which will ......
- > handle very large files
- > is able to do block edits in columns
- > works on a PC
- > outputs ASCII
- >
- >It would also be nice if it worked under MS-Windows and had a fixed column
- >output filling gaps with blanks or zeros
-
- When I was a DOS user, I liked Kedit, from the Mansfield Software Group.
- It has very nice column editing features and outputs ASCII. The latest
- version, 5.0, works in DOS or OS2 and uses extended memory. (I don't
- have this version.) They are working on a Windows version. You can set
- record type to fixed, with a specified record length in order to pad
- records with blanks. A global change would change all blanks to 0.
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- The column editing features are of two forms; you can highlight a column
- block and then copy, move, delete, fill or overlay that block with
- alt-keystroke commands (alt-c to copy, alt-m to move, etc.). Also, you
- can set a column-delimited zone, after which all of the command-line
- commands will affect only the columns within the zone. This allows you to
- create complex macros (which can be bound to a key) to do virtually
- unlimited column editing.
-
- Since I have a version that's several releases out-of-date, I suggest you
- call the developer if you have questions, instead of asking me:
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- Mansfield Software Group
- (203) 429-8402
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- I call them every so often and ask if they have plans to develop a Unix
- version, but so far the answer is "No". None of the Unix editors I've
- seen has the column editing power of Kedit; it's ideal for working with
- data and also for turning ugly output into something close to printable,
- so that TeX or a word-processor can easily handle the rest.
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- Barbara Vaughan
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