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From: jon@HP-UX.ucsd.edu (Jon Matousek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Text editing on Macs
Summary: Nisus and Rectangular Selection
Keywords: nisus rectangular selection text
Message-ID: <2038@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 89 09:17:12 GMT
References: <88714@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1630@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> <1533@esquire.UUCP>
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> In article <1533@esquire.UUCP>
> by yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost)
>
>Is there a plain text editor for the mac that can manipulate
>rectangular areas of text?  I'd love to be able to hold down
>option or cmd or something while dragging the cursor and have
>it select a rectangular area instead of a stream of text...
>

Nisus is not a plain text editor, but it does allow you to
do rectangular selections on text when the option modifier is
held down.

-jOn

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