text editor with column mode

[cascadePass]

Is there a text editor with a column mode feature similar to Crimson? I am using Red Hat enterprise.

Thanks.

[techieMoe]

I'm not sure what you mean by "column mode". The screenshots I see of Crimson look like an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). You can find several of these for Linux, including Anjuta, Eclipse, KDevelop, or XEmacs.

[rcgreen]

I'm not sure what you mean by "column mode".

You can copy and paste vertically. Most editors, when you
highlight stuff with the mouse, it grabs stuff horizontally,
but in column mode you can grab a column, whatever width
you want.

I was checking my system, and found that KWrite has
"Block selection mode" in the view menu. That should be it.

[techieMoe]

You can copy and paste vertically. Most editors, when you
highlight stuff with the mouse, it grabs stuff horizontally,
but in column mode you can grab a column, whatever width
you want.

Ah. In that case I don't know. I've never used that feature before.

[drl]

Hi.

The table Programming Features on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors has a feature called Rectangular Block Selection which may be of use to you ... cheers, drl

[cascadePass]

Thanks. With Crimson, I can hilite a block and when I type a character, it types the character on all of the lines. This is very useful for hdl coding and I use it all of the time. The Kwrite block select function is not the same. I'll keep looking. I have to ditch Crimson soon because we'll be full time on Linux.

[muha]

It's now exactly what you describe but, with vi you can use extensive search and replace by using sed scripting.

mz

This marks the last line of the text block you want to change.
Now you have to move to the first line of the block you want to change.

:,'zs/^/bar/g

From the current line to the marked line (,'z), replace (s///g) beginning of the line (^) with bar.

I'm sure you could also use the visual highlighting features and block features of vi to highlight a block and work on that block with d for delete and such. I can't figure out how exactly they work though ...
In vi check out:
:help visual
:help block