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  Re: selecting several thousand lines in pov file  
From: Steve Shelby
Date: 17 Sep 2003 08:57:18
Message: <3f685a2e@news.povray.org>
ABX, Thorsten,
OK, OK, I get your point. I was just wishing that there would be a *really
simple* way to do it, such as "select text between lines 2000 and 10000".
Maybe it would be something for future development?
Steve

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3f685571$1@news.povray.org...
> In article <3f6853a2@news.povray.org> , "Steve Shelby"
<ssh### [at] rexnetnet>
> wrote:
>
> > I tried what you suggested, and it deletes everything else in the pov
file
> > except for lines 8605 through 17361. Not exactly what I had in mind.
>
> But now you can select *everything* and copy it.  Then undo your actions
and
> you get what you want.
>
> Really, I don't see why you are so inflexible with this, after all, the
> "problem" you have is exactly the same in every other GUI text editor.
And
> you got tons of suggestions how to do what you want easily.  If you can
> describe how you think this should work without you doing anything, then
by
> all means, I think we all would like to know!  If not, then just use one
of
> the many methods suggested and live happily ever after :-)
>
>     Thorsten
>
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