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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

How can it be unique feature if every text editor and word processor has it? I have never heard of one that does not have that feature. Before I started using PC-Write, I used Wordstar, and it had that feature even in CP/M. When I switched to use VEDIT around the year 1985, it did have option both to copy text block using one of its multiple text registers (clipboards), and to copy a marked block directly to another location without using text register (as on Wordstar). And what is the point mentioning jEdit, since all the other editors have that feature, too? --PauliKL (talk) 11:12, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]