Wanted: metapad with block select

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Hi group,

I've been using Metapad for quite some time now. Only thing I'm
missing is the ability to block-select text.

Hence the question: anyone know a freeware light-weight Notepad
replacement, having the features of Metapad PLUS block selection
mode?

TIA,
Wald
 
wald <arnout.standaert@n*o_s-p%a|m.cit.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
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I've been using Metapad for quite some time now. Only thing I'm
missing is the ability to block-select text.
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Hence the question: anyone know a freeware light-weight Notepad
replacement, having the features of Metapad PLUS block selection
mode?
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I think so, but can you define "block selection mode?"

Is this a column selection? Row?

Or something else?
 
It was a dark and stormy night when wald <arnout.standaert@n*o_s-p%
a|m.cit.kuleuven.ac.be said:
I've been using Metapad for quite some time now. Only thing I'm
missing is the ability to block-select text.

Hence the question: anyone know a freeware light-weight Notepad
replacement, having the features of Metapad PLUS block selection
mode?
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AFAIK there isn't (yet) a 'notepad replacement' with the feature you
want. There are several text editors that support block selection but
all of them fall in the category of 'Programmers Text Editors', two
of them are:

SciTE (Scintilla Text Editor):
<http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html>

-and-

JFE (Jens File Editor):
<http://home.t-online.de/home/Jens.Altmann/jfe_eng.htm>

Regards
 
Le Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:54:00 +0000 (UTC), wald a écrit :
Hi group,
hi,


I've been using Metapad for quite some time now. Only thing I'm
missing is the ability to block-select text.

Hence the question: anyone know a freeware light-weight Notepad
replacement, having the features of Metapad PLUS block selection
mode?
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notepad2 seems a good metapad alternative ;-)
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

@+
 
REM said:
I think so, but can you define "block selection mode?"

Is this a column selection? Row?
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I guess I mean column selection. It's very handy for editing ASCII
data files... example, for ultimate clarity:

time prop1 prop2
1 10 46.2
2 11 48.1
3 12.2 46.9
4 13.3 46.8
5 14.2 47.4
6 14.9 47.7

Block selection allows you to conveniently select the whole
"prop1" column and delete it, so what remains are the time + prop2
data.

Regards,
Wald
 
wald said:
Hi group,

I've been using Metapad for quite some time now. Only thing I'm
missing is the ability to block-select text.

Hence the question: anyone know a freeware light-weight Notepad
replacement, having the features of Metapad PLUS block selection
mode?

TIA,
Wald
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Hi;
xint can do block selection (column selection mode)
Avaliable from http://www.xtort.net/xtort/xint.php
HTH
 
AFAIK there isn't (yet) a 'notepad replacement' with the feature you
want.
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Apologies for the above statement as it's plainly wrong. Notepad2 (by
Florian Balmer) supports block selection:
<http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html>
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I've installed Notepad2 and it looks good, but it does not seem to do
block/column selection as such. Instead it has these commands:

Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn Goto previous/next block.
Ctrl+Shift+PgUp/PgDn Select to previous/next block.

I might stick with Notepad2 for a while anyway, as it's pretty slick.
 
Iain Cheyne said:
I've installed Notepad2 and it looks good, but it does not seem
to do block/column selection as such.
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Yes it does, just press the Alt key, then select a block.

Regards,
Wald
 
wald said:
Hi group,

I've been using Metapad for quite some time now. Only thing I'm
missing is the ability to block-select text.

Hence the question: anyone know a freeware light-weight Notepad
replacement, having the features of Metapad PLUS block selection
mode?

TIA,
Wald
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I don't know about light-weight (900Kb), but Tera text editor does block
highlighting.
http://www.terasoft.ru/en/pages/texteditor.phtml

Hope this helps,

Tony(UK)
 
wald said:
anyone know a freeware light-weight Notepad
replacement, having the features of Metapad PLUS block selection
mode?
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Thanks, all, for the suggestions. I'm settling for Notepad2 for now, looks
great and *almost* as snappy as Metapad.

Wald
 
Thanks Uncas!

that xint editor is one of mine, it and subpad both do column select,
but are not as feature rich as "Scite". That editor is brilliant--it
uses that "SCintilla" component. It (Scite) can be a bit tedious for
the average user to configure it at first, as this is done with a
config file instead of dialog, but is worth it. It supports multiple
document UI, has toolbar,etc. The big plus is that it folds code too.
But as mentioned above, it is more of a "programmer's editor" than a
notepad.

Notepad2 is very good too, as it also uses that Scintilla edit
control. Then, there is this very, very good text ed:<a
href="http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm">Notepad++</a>,
it also uses that Scintilla control, but is more user-friendly for avg
users as opposed to Scite.

best,
xtort
[xtort.net]
 
Hi group,

I've been using Metapad for quite some time now. Only thing I'm
missing is the ability to block-select text.

Hence the question: anyone know a freeware light-weight Notepad
replacement, having the features of Metapad PLUS block selection
mode?

TIA,
Wald
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Metapad's competitor, the equally priceless EditPad, does column select.
Turn off word-wrap, use a fixed-width font like Courier, and hold down the
ALT Key
http://pricelessware.org/thelist/txt.htm#Editor: Notepad
 
Yes it does, just press the Alt key, then select a block.
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I stand corrected. The manual does not call it block or column selection:

- Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)

It works pretty well.
 
Le Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:54:00 +0000 (UTC), wald
Hi group,

I've been using Metapad for quite some time now. Only thing I'm
missing is the ability to block-select text.

Hence the question: anyone know a freeware light-weight Notepad
replacement, having the features of Metapad PLUS block selection
mode?

TIA,
Wald
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pspad can do this
alt + selection with mouse

http://www.pspad.com/
 
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