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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Feb 2008.
Re: Text editor

Re: Text editor

In <Xns9A4F1E031147Aantontxtgmailcom@85.214.90.236>,
Anton <anton.txt@g[oogle}mail.com> mentions:
>Faux_Pseudo:
>
>> It may do some of those things for you already.
>
>  Sounds good. So fat I have found only the  text  justification
>  fucntion in Emacs...
>  
>> If it doesn't then it can be taught to. You may not even  have
>> to write any of the code. The emacs group is  really  good  at
>> writting functions if you can accuratly describe what you  are
>> looking for.
>
>  Sounds good. So far I have found only the  text  justification
>  fucntion in Emacs though. But you have given me inspiration :)
>  So, do you think Emacs potentially allow for such things as:
>
>  1. Automatical handling of numerated lists and cross-references
>     (a-la MS Word)?
>  2. Paragraph styles.
>                                                                    
>  If so, I'll certainly give it a try!

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)

Here is how to do it:

:set ve=all

After that, you can move the cursor anywhere and insert characters.
(tabs will probably goof you up if you're not careful though)

vim is a "modal editor" which is extremely weird at first. It has 
a ton of features, it's well worth getting to know, but.. it has
a steep learning curve.

Jamie
-- 
http://www.geniegate.com                    Custom web programming
Perl * Java * UNIX                        User Management Solutions

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