On Monday, March 25, 2019 07:05:14 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 04:38:31AM +0000, mick crane wrote: > > Is there any text editor, preferably in a terminal that has the > > facility to protect lines in the document, not the document itself ? > > I've got 2 blocks of "code" that look similar and I keep editing the > > wrong one and then it doesn't work. > > mick > > What is "the document"? And what format is it in? > > I have the strong suspicion that the answer to the first would be > "a configuration file of some sort" and to the second, it might > be "plain text".
Because there have been some interesting ideas in this thread, I'll add one more (which might not be interesting). ;-) I share the thought that the file / document might be "a configuration file of some sort" and have a suggestion that might be useful in that case, or if the document is a program, and maybe even if it is just a text (not necessarily plain) file that you open with a word processor. The thought: put the part of the document that should not be modified in a read only file, then "include" that file in another file that you allow to be edited (read / write). There are various ways to do this, depending on the computer language under considereration (for example, #include in C / C++). There are equivalent approaches in bash, but I forget them (in bash, it might be a little more convoluted, like an external / 3rd file that assembles a new file from the read-only and read / write files. I even have a vague recollection that there is / was an "include a file" facility in (Microsoft) Word. And, if so, because LIbre Office seems to make a point of providing a feature complete "clone" (mcow) of Word, I suspect there is an include facility there as well.
