Good to know that. Thanks a lot, Yan Zhou!

Gang

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Yan Zhou <zhouyan@me.com> wrote:

> Holding the option key while selecting text, you can select the columns.
> This is built into the Mac OS X and available in many Mac "native" text
> editor like textmate, textwrangler, bbedit, etc, even the system's TextEdit
> can do that.
>
> Meanwhile Vim can do column selection with the blockwise-visual (CTRL-V is
> the default shortcuts). I don't use Emacs but heard it can do it, too. So
> select, copy paste and replace columns is nothing special at all.
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Gang Chen wrote:
>
> > I use nedit on daily basis because I usually run R on the Mac terminal or
> > X11, not in the R GUI window. One feature I like nedit most is that I can
> > select, copy, paste, and replace columns. Anybody know whether such a
> > feature is available in other editors such as TextWrangler?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for sharing the syntax highlighting file, Christian! I'll
> try
> > it out soon. Do you know if there is any way to execute a highlighted
> > portion of the R code in nedit?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gang
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:04 AM, cstrato <cstrato@aon.at> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> Although this question was asked and answered many times, one editor was
> >> never mentioned:
> >>
> >> As a long-time Mac user I prefer "nedit" for the following reasons:
> >>
> >> - it was developed by people who wanted to have a Mac-like editor on
> Linux
> >>
> >> - it is almost as powerful as emacs but much easier to use and much
> faster
> >>
> >> - it has built-in syntax highlighting for many languages
> >>
> >> - it has also syntax highlighting for R, simply install "R-5.3.pats"
> >> (which I attach)
> >>
> >> - it is incredible fast, e.g.:
> >>
> >>  -- it can open text files of sizes larger than 500 MB in few seconds
> >>     (e.g. the Affymetrix annotation file
> >> HuEx-1_0-st-v2.na31.hg19.probeset.csv)
> >>
> >>  -- searching such large files is also incredible fast
> >>
> >>  -- it opens a C++ source code with 10,000 lines immediately (in
> >> contrast to emacs)
> >>
> >> For these reasons I use nedit daily since more than 10 years on both
> >> Linux and Mac.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Christian
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