Re: how to paste in a specific column

2010-10-16 Thread john_burgess
Free Formatting is the modern style. Continuations are indicated by an ampersand at the end of the uncompleted line -- anywhere at the end. There is nothing special about column 73, and lines can be considerably longer than 73 characters. Whew. Glad to hear the 'column 6' continuation is

how to paste in a specific column

2010-10-14 Thread jtk
Hi, Has anyone figured out how to automatically place a character (e.g., ) in the same column of selected lines? This would be really useful for Fortran continuation lines. So far I can't see how to do it other than spacing one by one over from the end of the text to column 73, which is really

Re: how to paste in a specific column

2010-10-14 Thread John Delacour
At 08:33 -0700 14/10/2010, jtk wrote: Has anyone figured out how to automatically place a character (e.g., ) in the same column of selected lines? This would be really useful for Fortran continuation lines. So far I can't see how to do it other than spacing one by one over from the end of the

Re: how to paste in a specific column

2010-10-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 18:32 +0100 10/14/10, John Delacour wrote: At 08:33 -0700 14/10/2010, jtk wrote: Has anyone figured out how to automatically place a character (e.g., ) in the same column of selected lines? This would be really useful for Fortran continuation lines. So far I can't see how to do it other than

Re: how to paste in a specific column

2010-10-14 Thread jtk
Thanks for all the replies, and for reminding me that I'm a complete dinosaur for still programming in Fortran ;^. Obviously Doug you haven't had to program in Fortran 90/95. Official form for continuations is to put an ampersand in col. 73 of the first line and another one in col. 6 of the

Re: how to paste in a specific column

2010-10-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 17:09 -0700 10/14/10, jtk wrote: Thanks for all the replies, and for reminding me that I'm a complete dinosaur for still programming in Fortran ;^. Obviously Doug you haven't had to program in Fortran 90/95. Official form for continuations is to put an ampersand in col. 73 of the first line and

Re: how to paste in a specific column

2010-10-14 Thread Jeffrey Jones
On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:09 PM, jtk wrote: Obviously Doug you haven't had to program in Fortran 90/95. Official form for continuations is to put an ampersand in col. 73 of the first line and another one in col. 6 of the continuation line. This is not true. (Unless you are saying there is a