[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-11-19, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>> On 11/17/16 22:22, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> jEdit FTP and VMS also seems to work OK.
>>>
>>> Arne
>>>
>> 
>> I used to love using edt, but you do need the lk ketboard layout to
>> get the best from it. Notepad++ is pretty good for a modern editor,
>> but i'm still using nedit, which has been around for years and uses
>> the motif library, which vms may already have. Both notepad++ and
>> nedit support rectangular cut and paste, which I would find very
>> difficult not to have available now...
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>
> Now that alone has me thinking about looking at such an editor.  Things such as 
> cutting a name and address out of a screen to make a shipping label would be 
> quite helpful.

Built right into that machine in front of you in the form of EVE.

Doing the following in EVE on the above message:

1) "box select"
2) select the area
3) "box copy"
4) insert

gives this:

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Simon.

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