X-Google-Thread: f996b,9179d4b6546e4b1e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: References: Subject: Re: Text editor Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: nospam@geniegate.com (Jamie) Lines: 46 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.202.32.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1203983553 12.202.32.119 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:52:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:52:33 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:52:33 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com alt.ascii-art:5287 In , Anton mentions: >Jamie: > >> Could also try vim, it runs on windows as well as unix. It has a >> "virtual edit" kind of mode that lets you put characters anywhere >> on the screen. (a mode I never use) > > Yep, I have seen vim. But it is a text editor with only few > formatting features... It's really powerfull at working with > the content, but not with the formating thereof... > > I can use that virtual mode to make some ASCII drawings, but > how to apply it to text formatting I don't know... I'm not > gonna format text manually, symbol by symbol. In fact, that's > what I desire to avoid... I'm not really familiar with all of its formatting abilities, but it does have a "gqap" feature. Place the cursor over a paragraph and key in gqap it'll format the line into a paragraph. (I know there are more formatting capabilities, I've seen them. It's just that if you don't use em' you tend to forget) One thing I *do use* is its ability to work with other tools, you can highlight the text to process and hit !command and it'll process the selected text with whatever command you like. This works really well when editing HTML documents to get the <>'s back and forth: Here is some text :.!recode ..html Here is some <html> text :.!recode html.. Here is some text You can use it with indent, perl, fmt, etc.. so.. if you have a perfect tool for formatting text but not actually *edit* text, the two can be made to work together. 'course.. I don't know what is available for windows in this area, look into cygwin for stuff, they might have a "recode" and an "indent" tool. Jamie -- http://www.geniegate.com Custom web programming Perl * Java * UNIX User Management Solutions