From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e7151167e0767ecc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:31:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <8429999a.0408231027.2850e800@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408300906.15164bf3@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408310911.1e885c26@posting.google.com> <0Q2Zc.2443$TG.1908@trndny01> <19b0e504.0409020718.40a57082@posting.google.com> <9tednWJ_s_4bBarcRVn-qw@megapath.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1094322691 5949 134.91.1.34 (4 Sep 2004 18:31:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:31:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3321 Date: 2004-09-04T18:31:31+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: : Randy Brukardt wrote: :> This last capability is invaluable, because it is often the :> case that you want to replace something is a section of text, not :> the whole file, and there often are enough mods that OKing each one :> isn't sane. : : I don't use it much, but I believe Emacs can do this as well, although : not all commands will respect rectangles. (narrow-to-region START END) etc.. The functions are usually bound to some character following the C-x n prefix (n for narrow). Regular expressions help me a lot when the regions must be rectangular and I cannot use one in the dozen or so predefined *-rectangle commands :) -- Georg