[comp.emacs] selective-display feature?

weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener) (08/05/88)

In article <12789@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@garnet (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>>[vip-mode requests:] There is no indication of end of buffer,

>You mean the "~"s?  Oh wow, I forgot about them.  [complicated method]

There would be a simpler way, if an elementary(?) addition were made
to Emacs.  Something like (setq selective-display-ellipses STRING) to
mean use STRING to choose the selective display indication.  In this
case STRING would be a string of alternating tildes and newlines.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720