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From: rfrost@spam.ua.oz.au (Richard Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Does CED now have QEDIT-like block shifting??
Message-ID: <RFROST.91Mar10014728@spam.ua.oz.au>
Date: 9 Mar 91 16:17:28 GMT
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Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: Dept. of Stats Pure & Appl. Maths, Adelaide University
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I use QEDIT on an IBM at work, I believe one of its strongest points
is its ability to shift text in a block left or right to allow
quick and easy movement of code from one level of indentation
to another... ie

consider the code: ..

void test(...)
{
  /* quite a few levels of indentation ...later .. */

              if (blah)
                {
                   /* code thats in here is just itching to be
                   a function */
                }
}

To put the code into a function in CED one must do a columnar block cut and
paste it into a created function (quite laborious)... with
QEDIT, I'd just position the cursor in the first line of code, 
type an ALT-L (which begins the highlight-block-a-line-at-a-time mode)
move the cursor to the last line of the code to be cut and hit the
grey '-' key on the keypad, cutting out all the highlighted code.

Next, I'd hit the grey '*' key and paste the code into my empty function
and proceed to move all the code LEFT until it was indented correctly
for that function, with shift-F7 (move text left).

Does CED have the ability to shift text WITHIN a HIGHLIGHTED BLOCK left
or right like this?. I now CANNOT write code quickly in any editor
which lacks this facility, its indispensable.

The new editor TurboText has this feature (it even has QEDIT emulation) 
but is terribly slow (YES, I KNOW the IBM does not have bit mapped text
like the Amiga, thus the IBM has superior speed in purely text based
programs) but I reckon that with some smart blitter work I think CED 
could easily be able to do this !!!



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