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Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

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On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>
> The ability to edit the copy buffer in a different tab, doing a buffer
> wide edit to change the axis references in the buffer, so that those
> edits are done and stand a chance of being correct when the main buffer
> has been scrolled to the point where the just edited buffer is to be
> pasted back into the main file.
>
> If such an editor exists, I'll take it for a walk. But editors that
> require more than 2 fingers to accomplish the copy/paste need not apply.
> Same for editors whose fonts are stick figures one pixel wide and can't
> be changed to something like "hack, bold".

If I understand your workflow correctly, you might find the NrrwRgn
plugin[1] for vim very useful.

Say you have a very long file and would like to edit just 2-3
paragraphs in it but keep the rest of the file untouched. You can open
the file in vim, visually select the paragraphs to be edited (by V)
and  then press :nr . This will open a new buffer with the selected
lines. Once you make all the edits in the new buffer -> save -> close,
the changes will automatically be integrated into the original file.
You can then review the changes and save the original file.

[1] Stable version of the plugin can be downloaded from
https://vim.sourceforge.io/scripts/script.php?script_id=3075

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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog

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Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-09-06 06:20 +0200
  Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-06 08:40 +0200
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2017-09-06 09:20 +0200
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-06 10:30 +0200
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-06 15:10 +0200
        Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-09-06 18:30 +0200
          Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-06 20:30 +0200
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-09-06 16:10 +0200
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-06 16:50 +0200
    OT: Re: Suitable text ed Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> - 2017-09-07 07:50 +0200
      Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Jan-Peter Rühmann <jan-peter@ruehmann.name> - 2017-09-07 09:10 +0200
        Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-07 19:30 +0200
          Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-07 20:50 +0200
            Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-09-07 21:40 +0200
              Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-08 02:30 +0200
                Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-08 23:50 +0200
            Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-07 22:30 +0200
      Re: OT: Re: Suitable text ed Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-07 09:20 +0200
  Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-06 19:40 +0200
    Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-06 21:10 +0200
      Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-07 00:00 +0200

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