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From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How to cut and paste a column
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Date: 25 Mar 88 03:16:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: BEC.SHAPIN@ECLA.USC.EDU (Ross Watkins)


In article <12384916270.13.BEC.SHAPIN@ECLA.USC.EDU>, BEC.SHAPIN@ECLA (Ross Watkins) writes:
> Rick Allard asks:
> >   Has anybody found the need and the solution
> >   to cutting a column out of a multicolumn
> >   area of characters, a table?  Any Display
> >   Manager Jockeys that can help, I'd like to
> >   [unreadable...I think it said "buy them lunch"]
> 
> I'm hardly a DM Jock, but I have been squeezing DM for awhile, trying 
> to get it to look more like EMACS

I have a bunch of Emacs-like key bindings for the DM, which I can post if people
are interested.  The hardest one was getting ^K to kill to the end of the line
correctly, making sure it joined the lines if you were already at the end of the
line.  I don't append successive kills to the kill-buffer, however.  Barring
this, the basic control, ESC and ^X key sequences work pretty much as in Emacs.

> To cut a rectangular are out of any text file, first mark the top-left
> corner, then cursor down to the bottom-right.  Everything in between
> will reverse-video, including the stuff outside your rectangle that
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> you don't want, but don't worry.  Now use the DM command "XD -R",
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> which will cut the rectangular section from the text, and hold it in
> the paste buffer.  The inverse operation--pasting a column into the
> middle of a table--is done with the companion command "XP -R" (don't
> use the PASTE key!); bear in mind that if things don't line up exactly, 
> you will have some reformatting to do.

You can use ECHO -R to highlight the rectangle correctly.

-- Ashwin.

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