7 Oct
2004
7 Oct
'04
7:50 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Lucas K. Mathis wrote:
BTW, what the heck is "Freehanded edit"?
It is an editing mode in which the caret is free to go anywhere in the display i.e. it is not limited horizontally by newlines. Kind of like in really old-style editors. It is quite convenient if you are making some kind of ASCII drawing.
An example could be an illustration of a hierarchy in your code such as:
Superclass / \ / \ Subclass Subclass
This is much easier to handle in "Freehanded edit". Note that often it makes sense to combine this with the overwrite mode.
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Benny