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[QuantumKnot]

While nedit has been largely forgotten with the new whiz-bang text editors, there is one particular ability of nedit that I haven't seen yet in any other text editor.

Basically I wanted to copy a column of data into matlab so that I could find its standard deviation (but I was too lazy to write scripts or code to extract it out). So nedit came to rescue my lazy ass by allowing me to ctrl-drag a column of data

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[kamil]

pffft... try visual mode in vim

[Brett]

Been there.. Done that... Bought the T-Shirt.........

[QuantumKnot]

pffft... try visual mode in vim

I was under the impression that visual mode only selects rows of text. I didn't think you could just select a column.

[QuantumKnot]

Been there.. Done that... Bought the T-Shirt.........

Yeah I know, that's how KKP used to extract student names and no.'s from the class lists, right? The young ones don't know about nedit though

[kamil]

yeah u are right, not visual mode, the block mode, if memory serves me correctly this time... (too lazy to look it up, but i did use it b4)

and yeah, haven't heard of nedit b4...