From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:38:05 -0700 From: "Micah Stetson" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5225d93e83852588372e81c3985b67b4@quanstro.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] acme/sam linewrapping off Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7fc569c0-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Another, even more compelling example is, when you want to look at some > scientific data from some experiment. There it is quite common to have rows > of data, each row having say 20 real numbers, each row meaning one 'step' of > the experiment. With acme or sam, with/without your solution, you have no > simple way of looking at it. Using Vim, it's an easy task, you can turn the > wrapping off... I tend to think editing tabular data is a task for a different program. 20 real numbers of a similar length are probably fine in Vim. But throw in a couple of fields where the length varies and keeping track of columns across lines gets to be a real task, wrapping or no. I'd like to see an acme-like environment for editing tables. (I know, "Quit talking; start coding.") Micah