From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10935 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2008 17:24:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 10927 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2008 17:24:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:23:56 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JPhoO-0001tB-2v for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:23:52 +0000 Received: from 65.207.248.83 ([65.207.248.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:23:52 +0000 Received: from mw_triad by 65.207.248.83 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:23:52 +0000 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: tcsh clear command? Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <47B21F1D.50604@cygwin.com> <010a01c86dce$b42d3010$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <018301c86e68$34090680$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Original-To: Didn't you know? Hippos always select in blocks... X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> Ditto here. Who really prefers a rows-and-columns based method (AKA a >> box!) of copying text? I can't say there's been a single time when I >> said "Damn I wish I could just copy and paste a box of text. Copying a >> line of text just isn't what I want to do right now!". YMMV. > > Umm, VIm with multiple horizontal windows? Or any text containing > tables? In fact, that's why VIm added the "box select" feature... Heh. Glad I didn't send a similar reply to the main list (and before reading the thread on -talk, at that :-) ). And you can add kate to the list of editors with block selection (I thought vim had it also, but my vim-fu is practically non-existent). >> It was merely my opinion. Why do you attempt to make more of it? > > That's called arrogance... Indeed. -- Matthew Thus sang the fat lady...