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 <[email protected]> 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 >> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >> C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a >> V.i.e.n.n.a A.u.s.t.r.i.a >> e.m.a.i.l: cstrato at aon.at >> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
