OT: text editor that selects rectangular blocks of text

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* An ongoing debate between Wylbur37 and All rages on ...

| W> I'm looking for a freeware text editor that selects rectangular blocks
| W> of text by click-and-drag (and/or Shift-key and arrow-key).
| W> Is there a freeware text editor that works that way?

There's a package I use daily (ahem-ware, unrestricted shareware) that
does it quite nicely called PC-Write (v4.15 is what you'll find, 4.16 is
licensed and non-distributable). Should be easy to locate and it's DOS
based - works great in Windows DOS box. 4.15 is about a 1.7 MB archive ...

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* An ongoing debate between Wylbur37 and All rages on ...

| W> I'm looking for a freeware text editor that selects rectangular
blocks
| W> of text by click-and-drag (and/or Shift-key and arrow-key).
| W> Is there a freeware text editor that works that way?

There's a package I use daily (ahem-ware, unrestricted shareware) that
does it quite nicely called PC-Write (v4.15 is what you'll find, 4.16 is
licensed and non-distributable). Should be easy to locate and it's DOS
based - works great in Windows DOS box. 4.15 is about a 1.7 MB archive ...

PSPad
http://www.pspad.com/

does this and about a zillion other things.

 

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Le Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:44:20 GMT, Remove Underscores a écrit :

PSPad
http://www.pspad.com/

does this and about a zillion other things.

notepad2 too...
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

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