Talk:PC-Write
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Unique features
From the article: "One feature unique to PC-Write that even the latest word processors cannot perform[citation needed] was to copy and paste a block of text anywhere. For instance, if one had a block of information, one per line, in the format Name (spaces) Address, one could highlight only the addresses section and paste that into the right-hand part of a page."
I don't know about modern word processors, but back in the day, this feature was not unique to PC-Write. Wordstar at least also did it. -- Schneelocke (talk) 16:48, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure where the line is drawn between a "Word processor" and "text editor" but vim, emacs and many other text editors can select blocks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.3.57.68 (talk) 17:40, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- Programs like vim et al can do it now. Remember, this was 25 years ago and for shareware on PCs, this feature was pretty special. StaticSan (talk) 03:37, 6 July 2012 (UTC)