Text editor

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William B. Lurie

Maybe a bit off-topic but not too far.
Text editors like Notepad and Editpad
are good at cutting and pasting *lines*
and *blocks* of text. I'd like one that
will cut *fields* (i.e., columns) from
blocks of data and save what's left....

In thinking about it, I've avoided all of the
'spreadsheet' type programs, but maybe that's
the answer.............. ??????
 
MS Word will do that with no problems. Just hold down the Alt key while
selecting text.

MD
 
Sorry, MD .... MS packages like Office and Word didn't
come with this PC, which I use almost entirely for
non-business apps.
WBL
 
Thanks for that link, MD. I downloaded and installed it,
and a tremendous improvement it is, over basic Notepad.
I saw its "Column mode"......and I tried Alt-C as requested,
but it still doesn't give me a way to remove a column.
That lets me *insert* a column of text, but I've asked in their
help forum how to (mark or select and) delete a column.
 
Select a column of text by holding down the Alt key and left-clicking the
mouse and dragging it over the text you want to select.

MD
 
Further work with N++ reveals that it does work, MD;
it takes a bit of cockpit training, but it does work.

But I found out one maybe unexpected feature:

If I delete (say) the whole second column.....
it will move any columns that are to the right of that
column, over to the left, to fill that space.

Now, that's good, and useful, and I want it that way.
But if I delete only PART of a column, it doesn't
just leave blank the space I deleted..... it moves
the data that was to the right, over to the left to fill that
space. That makes the new column have some good data,
what I didn't delete in that column, and bad data in the
space I created.

Maybe there's no way around that, and if not, it's still
very useful and thank you very much.............
WBL
 
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