jeff (05/03/83)
I'd like to be able to highlight a region of text with gosling's emacs. For example, this would be handy for illustrating the exact extent of a region of text. I'd like to have a command such as `highlight-region' which displays the region between mark and dot in reverse video or standout mode. Anybody have any ideas on how hard this would be? Anybody tried it before? Any suggestions? Jeff Stearns ...!decvax!microsoft!fluke!jeff John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett WA. (206) 356-5064
jr@bbncd (05/05/83)
Relay-Version:version B 3/9/83; site harpo.UUCP Message-ID:<1278@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date:Thu, 5-May-83 06:05:10 EDT From: John Robinson <jr@bbncd> The BBN Pen editor uses a visible mark, which I have sometimes missed in EMACS. Many times this is enough for what you describe. Highlighting a whole region might be costly if the terminal requires sending the entire region again (most do I suspect); it is probably more appropriate for workstations where there is higher bandwidth between the editor and the display. Since I mentioned Pen, I'll mention another useful feature it has - region-shape options. That is, aside from "text" shaped regions (like what EMACS uses), regions can be "line" shaped (includes all of the lines including point and mark) or "box" shaped (this is the clever one - all the rectangle defined by point and mark). Box regions turn out to be very useful for making figures out of text. /jr jr @ bbn-unix (arpanet)