Text Editing

I use IBM Personal Editor 3, which is a not-cheap commercial product ($80
or so) from IBM Personally Developed Software.  Been using it for over 15
years.  I love its block editing capabilities.  Unfortunately, while it
does work well under Win 9x, it does not deal with long file names.  So, in
the newsgroup comp.lang.fortran (who else would I seek counsel from?) I
asked for advice on editors.  The following is a distillation of replies.

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I moved from PE to UltraEdit http://www.idmcomp.com/

Very nice column editor, with syntax highlighting (though you'll have to
add FORTRAN), hex editing, and much more.  In response to the original

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MED can do this.  It's an excellent shareware editor.  see
http://www.utopia-planitia.de.

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I have found TextPad (at www.textpad.com!) to be a friendly Windows
editor which has block mode. It is shareware with a low fee. It has
an indefinite nag period. There is also UltraEdit which is shareware
with a fixed trial period.

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Yep and Yep.  In addition to the native block copy/moves there's a coledit
macro contributed. See: COL.ZIP at
http://www.kedit.com/libwinuser.htm

Also you can shift any kind of block (line, block, stream) back and forth,
independently, by assigning "shift right 1 block" or "shift right 1 block",
for example, to a key.

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> Columns!  Can kedit mark and move a column around?  Or a block of text
> bounded by a pair of columns and a pair of lines?

Yes, interactively or via macro.
