[net.emacs] Zimmerman"s EMACS vs. Gosling"s EMACS parse date string

lepreau (02/02/83)

One thing that Zimmerman's emacs does very nicely that Gosling's does
not (at least I haven't seen such a package) is handle "rectangular
regions."  In other words, columns.  ^Y, ^W, m-y, etc, all have
analogues (same commands prefixed by ^C) which operate on a rectangle
defined by point and mark at its opposite corners.  Occassionally this
is VERY useful.  If anyone has such a package for Gosling's I'd like
to know.

Zimmerman's also has a "picture mode" which is useful when kludging
up pictures, of course.  I expect it would be easy to whip up a picture
mode for Gosling's-- certainly easier than handling rectangular regions.
Anyone with either?

Jay Lepreau, harpo!utah-cs!lepreau, lepreau@utah-cs

mckeeman (02/03/83)

Does CCA Emacs have an interface to unix mail?  The one we use in 
the Gosling emacs (pmail by name) is the heaviest consumer of emacs
cycles here.  How about news?  Or, in general, "peek through" 
capability to unix routines of all kinds.
/s/ Bill McKeeman, Wang Institute