[LBo] Editors

[James Allen]

On 10/18/06, Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:
> : commands are the textual equivalent of a modal dialog. You dedicate
> some screen space for a text field, and put it into a special mode that
> intreprets keys as a command instead of literal text insertions, and
> create some ways to exit that mode.
>
> (^Y is amazing thing: you can highlight a filename in different app, go
> back to nedit and press ^Y, and it will open that file. No cutting and
> pasting at all. I do this all the time from xterms.)
> <quoting Scott Tringali>

I've used Nedit sporadically over the last, at least I would say, 6
years. Ctrl-Y is a nice feature.

James