Roland wrote:

>At 08:21 AM 16/11/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>  
>
>>OpenOffice suits my own need very well.  Tip: Do learn to use templates
>>    
>>
>and the stylist and you will never use MSWord again...  OK, I have not used
>MS products for years, I also used Pagemaker.
>  
>
>>Never needed them again when first Staroffice5, then Openoffice came
>>    
>>
>about, and from what i have read it is now in ......
>
>Hi
>
>Quick query;
>
>Many years ago there was a dos text editor called e.com. The really neat
>thing about this program was that it allowed 
>one to do block cut/copy/paste. Ever since then I've only seen progs that
>pull up the rest of the line when copying/cutting. 
>The feature was really neat for code writing since it made it easy to paste
>a column of say "equ  0x     ; " anywhere 
>on the page without screwing up the other text.
>
>I typed this up using
>carrige returns just to 
>demostrate a copy and 
>pasted block.
>
>eg; pasted block;    ed this up us
>                     ge returns ju
>                     trate a copy 
>                     d block.
>
>So my question is if anyone is aware of a similar text editor without me
>having to test them all.
>

IIRC, Ultra-Edit can do this. It's called "column mode". 
http://www.ultraedit.com
David...



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