chris (02/03/83)
I have written a picture-mode for (Gosling's) EMACS. It puts the user in overwrite- rather than insert-mode. It also allows travel in any of the four main orthogonal directions, (up, down, and left as well as to the right) and handles tab, return and linefeed in a reasonable way. The buffer is treated as an (potentially) infinite quarter-plane, so that downward motion from the bottom line does the right thing even in the middle of a line. genradbo!john has made some modifications to the package, but I haven't seen all of them. The package as currently written assigns the change-direction functions to keys that make sense on a vt100, (because of the location on the keyboard of the arrow keys) but the basic package should be usable on any terminal that emacs can handle.
flon%usc-cse@USC-ECL (02/05/83)
Is this package of which you speak available for general distribution? How do I get it? Larry