mc > cooledit has the same lookNfeel as DOS > nc had 20-30 years ago; which is convenient ! But I'm getting stupid: to extract a block and write it to a file, I've been juggling with 'head' & 'tail' [I can't see how to get bash to calculate ( $3 - $2 ) for the piece which I need to save - instead of having to do the subtraction manually].
Then it occured to me that simplest of editors can mark-a-block and save it ! Is it possible that cooledit can't do this with it's default settings ? BTW I've modified the default: <F9> / command / External Formatter, for some other requirement, and it's this group of commands which handles the marked block. Let's see if/how 'write date' works ? Mon 30 Mar 2009 05:14:14 PM SAST Wow, there another new facility - found after decades of usage ! TIA, == Chris Glur. _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc