Re: Text Editors Multiedit

[Dana Boisvert <Dana_Boisvert@AVID.COM>]

I don't think I've ever seen UltraEdit crash and I am sometimes editing 2
million+ line data files for a data conversion project I am working on...

I am not sure about getting UltraEdit to do what you are looking for, but you
may be able to get KEDIT to perform such a feature.  I know that you can set a
"zone" for editing to narrow your search to certain column(s) and then do a find
and replace or other function based on a certain value.  I haven't done exactly
what you are describing however.  I have not gone anywhere NEAR the amount of
features offered in either KEDIT or UltraEdit.  I do like the flexibility of
having 2 good editors though because sometimes a task lends itself to one or the
other.  Editing programs is preferable (for me) in UltraEdit while KEDIT is my
editor of choice for manipulation of data files...





"Reimers, Bill" <Bill.Reimers@MARRIOTT.COM> on 04/05/2002 03:37:21 PM

Please respond to sqr-users@list.iex.net

To:   SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
cc:    (bcc: Dana Boisvert/AM/Avid)

Subject:  Re: Text Editors Multiedit



I've been using UltraEdit for a couple of years now, and love it, however it
crashes too much (almost once a day).  Does anyone else experience such
unstableness, or is it my crappy personal environment that brings me this
misery?  I am using version 9.

Also ... Column/Block (mode) searching ... I think someone said MultiEdit
could search on a column or block of text (which I interperted as meaning,
for example, if you had 3 consectutive lines with 'A' in column 10, you
could search for other occurrances of 3 lines with a stack of 'A'), and
someone said UltraEdit could too ... really?  Do share, for this is about
the only feature I wish were in UE, but isn't.

-----Original Message-----
From: Johnson, Dan [mailto:Dan_Johnson@WRIGHTEXPRESS.COM]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:55 PM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: Re: Text Editors Multiedit


        UltraEdit has some very powerful regular expression and macro
capabilities and will do just about everything but cook your breakfast. I
here they are working on the breakfast problem and it will come out in the
next release.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Spritzer
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Text Editors Multiedit


UltraEdit will do that too.
Sam


--- Christopher Wanko <WankoC@WYETH.COM> wrote:
> >>> NEDOLPH@AOL.COM 04/04/02 11:32AM >>>
> MultiEdit is the ONLY text editor I ever saw in which you could
> do a string search and replace in a COLUMN OR COLUMNS OF TEXT.
> >>>
>
> SPF, vi, and emacs can do column operations.
>
> -Chris


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