> I just had to edit a file which has very long lines having >1000 > 'words' seperated e.g. with a TAB character. I had to find say 1000th > word on such a line. > > In vim, it's easy. You use '1000W' command and there you are. > Can the same be achieved in sam/acme? The main problem for me is the > repetition --- i.e. how to do sth. known number of times...
You can double-click at the beginning of the line and then execute s/<tab>/\n/g .-0+1000 u that will show you what the 1000th word is, and then you can go back to it after the undo. It's not ideal, but you asked. Russ
