If I want to change all "beer" to "fish" between columns 10 and 20, the result would be (changes capitalized). While that is certainly nice, I want to he able to search/replace text and be able to restrict it to a a range or of contiguous columns, preferably also on a range of contiguous lines.Īnn likes beer, and also wine (and the Oxford comma -)Īnd here is is again, with some line & column numbers: 1 2 3 4 NotpePad++, Crimson Editor (which seems to be longer in development, alas), and UltraEdit (which is not free, alas), all claim a column mode, but that is only the ability to copy/paste rectangular areas of a text file. I am looking for a free editor which allows me to edit only particular columns of a text file (preferably only on a series of contiguous lines). If anyone out there is old enough to remember the ISPF editor on IBM mainframes, then you know what I mean.
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