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From: larryg@zehntel (Larry Gillespie)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Need to be able to look at columns > 80.
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Date: 24 Aug 89 16:55:23 GMT
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Reply-To: larryg@zehntel (Larry Gillespie)
Organization: Zehntel, Inc. Walnut Creek, CA
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I need to be able to view and edit columns beyond 80 on an 80-column terminal.
Does Emacs have this capability?  I'd like to be able to shift horizontally
to the right an indefinite number of columns, so I was looking at columns
41 through 120, say, or 81 through 160, 161 - 240, etc.  Now, I have heard that
Emacs can do anything.  Can it do this?  I know for a fact that the IBM
mainframe editor 'XEDIT' can do this, but that is not what I have or want.

I am using Unipress Emacs here.  We also have GNU Emacs available, but that
editor is not the solution to my problem.  I'm interested primarily in making
such a feature work with the Unipress Emacs.

I also would like to have Unipress Emacs understand complex text constructs
such as matrices of numbers.  We have a standard test vector construct in our
PCB test language that has a section where signals are identified, followed
by a section where the actual stimulus and measurement values are stored
(the matrix of H, L, U, D, X, Z, etc.).  I would like to have this Emacs
capable of recognizing such a construct, including knowing different iterations
of this type of construct by the names assigned to them in the constructs.
Then, I'd like to have a command which automatically copies and/or moves the
matrix part from one such construct to the other, when the two names are given.
So, I am asking for context sensitivity, and a block move (and possible fill-in
if the depth of one of the matrices is greater than the other).
Is this possible?  At the very least I need a manual block move capability.

I'd also like to be able to tell the to go to a particular named construct,
and have it relocate the window around that construct.  I also would like to
be able to do a global substitution on a particular column in an arbitrary
number of lines (because of the matrix nature of the text data).

Thanks in advance for all such information.  Please e-mail to me as well as
posting, if you please, since we miss some of the articles here.

-Larry Gillespie
Teradyne, Inc.
Zehntel Systems Division,
2625 Shadelands Drive,
Walnut Creek, Calif.  94598
(415) 932-6900 x217
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