gEdit - select blocks of text?

[Jim Richardson]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:58 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Mitch Contla wrote:
> > On 5/8/07, Dave M <DaveM at mich.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Can gedit select (and cut/paste) a block of text? For example, all
> >> characters between column 8 and 16 in rows 32 through 64? If so, how do I
> >> do it? If not, is there an easy to use editor (in the repository) that
> >> will?
> > 
> > 
> > Don't you consider vim easy to use?  Ctrl-V! :)
> 
> Seriously, Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) has this
> capability built-in (maybe vi does too); see
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Rectangles.html.
> Emacs does have a learning curve, but I'm finding it worth it.
> 
> Matt Flaschen
> 

Vim does this pretty well. Move to the start point, hit Ctrl-V, use the
normal movement keys to define the block, and then do whatever action
you wanted to do. 

-- 
Jim Richardson <warlock at eskimo.com>
Erisian Claw