dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) (12/12/87)
> > What universal law says that an Emacs-style editor can't highlight > things or use a mouse? Zmacs, the Emacs-style editor on MIT-derived > Lisp Machines, does both of these things. When you invoke a command > that marks a region, the region is underlined (there is an option to > use inverse video instead of underlining). > Gnu EMACS on a Sun also has a mouse interface, but I think the highlighting (there currently is none that I know of) and paren checking could be improved. Zmacs has an execllent paren checker that causes the backward matching paren to blink, showing the matching paren at (just before) the current cursor position. If (when) Gnu is given better paren checking capabilities and mouse-selectable region highlighting I will be quite happy to let my old Symbolics 3600 gather dust in the corner while I use Gnu with KEE and LISP on a Sun. --Doug -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Roberts dzzr@lanl.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------
alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain) (12/12/87)
In article <13276@beta.UUCP> dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) writes: >> What universal law says that an Emacs-style editor can't highlight >> things or use a mouse? Has anyone ever tried to implement highlighting in GNU? I would REALLY like to have this but I haven't dug deep enough into the code to see how to do it. If anyone has ever tried, I would appreciatteany leads to a starting point, and or even a description off what I'm going to be looking at if//when I go in myself. ThanX in advance. :alex.
rodney@pawl21.pawl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck) (12/16/87)
In article <638@umbc3.UMD.EDU> alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain) writes: >In article <13276@beta.UUCP> dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) writes: >>> What universal law says that an Emacs-style editor can't highlight >>> things or use a mouse? > >Has anyone ever tried to implement highlighting in GNU? I would REALLY like >If anyone has ever tried, I would appreciatteany leads to a starting point, The Symbolics Lisp machines have an editor called Zmacs which supports highlighting and mouse control. Perhaps you should find a Symbolics machine and mimic it. I think that mousing and highlighting would be great. I'm using a sun 3/50 right now. Rodney