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echo: qedit
to: MONICA WILLYARD
from: FURLAN PRIMUS
date: 1995-04-26 19:23:00
subject: deleting text

On Apr 23 23:11 95, MONICA WILLYARD of 1:133/8015 wrote:
MW> Hi, everyone.  I am a new Qedit user, and I have a question.  Is it
MW> posible to delete a block of text in Qedit?  Right now, I just keep
MW> pounding my delete key to get rid of unwanted text.  I read the help
MW> screen, but I didn't see any help.  Thanks in advance.
yes, as a matter of fact, you can, for example, if you wanted to delete 
5 lines and your cursor is now sitting on the first line you could do:
ALT-L 
cursor down 4 more lines
ALT-G
MW> ... Documentation - The worst part of programming.
the online help IS sparse, i think that is intentional, Qedit is 
SUPPOSED to be 'mean & lean'! 
there is more information in the manual about BLOCK operations. 
      ciao,
           fl
... The best thing since sliced bread.
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