any editors that limit find/search to certain columns?

From	Suzy Wong <suzywng@outlook.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	any editors that limit find/search to certain columns?
Date	2023-02-18 11:59 +0800
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<tspif6$3t15e$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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In a job some years ago, we had a real nice editor, maybe it was 
Ultraedit. The job files were a throwback to punch cards, so you would 
do a find/replace restricted to columns 1-8 for example.
I haven't seen any FOSS editor with this column option.
Does anybody know one?

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any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? Suzy Wong <suzywng@outlook.com> - 2023-02-18 11:59 +0800
  Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-18 01:59 -0500
  Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-18 12:15 +0100
  Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2023-02-18 07:31 -0500
  Re: any editors that limit find/search to certain columns? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-02-18 10:54 -0700

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