Select text rectangle

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Hi there,

I was wondering if there is such a thing as a freeware text editor
which allows to select rectangular portions of text (i.e., a couple of
columns). Something like the selection showed in the capture at
http://www.robelle.com/tips/images/qwin-boxes01.gif

TIA and regards!
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ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful text editor, developed mainly to
serve as secondary tool for software developers. After years and years
searching for suitable Windows text editor, I haven't found any of them
to completely satisfy my needs, so I wrote my own.

This editor is freeware. Anyway, I'd like to hear your comments and
suggestions, to discuss about it and implement it in future versions.

http://www.context.cx/index.html
 
I was wondering if there is such a thing as a freeware text editor
which allows to select rectangular portions of text (i.e., a couple of
columns). Something like the selection showed in the capture at
http://www.robelle.com/tips/images/qwin-boxes01.gif
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Most (if not all) Scintilla based editors do that:

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Btw.: It's always worth a try to select a block of text with the left
mouse key while having the Alt key pressed. More word processing programs
and text editors support this, than one would think.

BeAr
 
Kuko said:
Hi there,

I was wondering if there is such a thing as a freeware text editor
which allows to select rectangular portions of text (i.e., a couple of
columns).
Click to expand...

culled from previous posts:

Keywords: block select

Program: ConText
Author: (Eden Kirin)
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#0154-PW

Program: Crimson Editor
Author: (Ingyu Kang)
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#0169-PW

Program: emacs
Author: Free Software Foundation
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#0905

Program: Jedit
Author: (Slava Pestov)
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#0400-PW

Program: Notepad++
Author: Don HO
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#3908

Program: Notepad2
Author: Florian Balmer
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#3565

Program: NoteTab Light
Author: Fookes Software
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#0503-PW

Program: PSPad
Author: (Jan Fiala)
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#0539-PW

Program: SciTE
Author: (Neil Hodgson)
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#0651-PW

Program: Syn Text Editor
Author: (Ascher Stefan)
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#0736

Program: vim
Author: Vim
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#0922-PW

More?

Susan
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MLC said:
giovedì 1 settembre 2005 Susan Bugher ha scritto:


Program: EditPad Lite
Author: Jan Goyvaerts
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/PL2005TEXT.php#0240-PW
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Thank you Maria. :) Try the search:

http://acfwiki.pbwiki.com/index.php?wiki=SpecialFeatures

Susan
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Susan Bugher ([email protected]) wrote:
: Kuko wrote:
: > Hi there,
: >
: > I was wondering if there is such a thing as a freeware text editor
: > which allows to select rectangular portions of text (i.e., a couple of
: > columns).
:
:

Also Charles Sandmann's ED (see "help box_mode").


--Jerry Leslie
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leslie said:
Susan Bugher ([email protected]) wrote:
: Kuko wrote:
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: > I was wondering if there is such a thing as a freeware text editor
: > which allows to select rectangular portions of text (i.e., a couple of
: > columns).
Click to expand...
Also Charles Sandmann's ED (see "help box_mode").
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Thank you Jerry. :)

Susan
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Susan Bugher ([email protected]) wrote:
: leslie wrote:
:
: > Susan Bugher ([email protected]) wrote:
: > : Kuko wrote:
:
: > : > I was wondering if there is such a thing as a freeware text editor
: > : > which allows to select rectangular portions of text (i.e., a couple of
: > : > columns).
:
: > Also Charles Sandmann's ED (see "help box_mode").
:
: Thank you Jerry. :)
:

You're welcome.

I'm posting from a VMS version of 'tin' with ED as its editor.
ED runs on VMS and most flavors of unix, as well as Windows from
a DOS box.
 
MLC said:
giovedì 1 settembre 2005 Susan Bugher ha scritto:


Yep. You're doing a great job also there! :-)
ATM I can't, but in the future I hope to contribute...
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That's the nicest thing about a wiki - you can add info whenever *you* want to. :)

Susan
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