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From: sequent!paulr@CSE.OGC.EDU (Paul Reger)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Documentation bug ?? / etc.
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Date: 23 Jun 89 17:25:02 GMT
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I really like the GNU emacs editor.  It is by far the most flexible, powerful
editor that I have used to date.

I was trying to learn your so-called ELISP though, and I could not find any
reference to books or manuals on it in you GNU Emacs Manual (Sixth edition,
Version 18, March 1987 by Richard Stallman).  I think this was probably an
oversight in preparing the manual.

Another thing, I heard rumours that you have an ELISP manual, and you are
working on a third book which is on the same subject but on a less
sophisticated level.  I would be interested in purchasing both of these
manuals.  Can you send me an order blank for them ??

On another, completely different, subject, I wanted to suggest some extensions
to the editor that you probably considered putting in already, but I thought
I'd just add to your statistics of 'who, and how many people, want what
extensions':

1. reverse-video-region.  Place region in reverse-video, and back to normal
(toggle).  Most PC editors have this, as well as EVE in VMS, and I miss it.

2. set-width.  I don't know how to explain this one.  My terminal supports two
widths: 80 columns and 132 columns.  Sometimes I want to edit in 80 column mode
and other times in 132 columns. I think it would be super convienient to (with
the flick of a key or two) to go between the two modes.  This would alter the
terminal as well as GNU emac's view of the screen.

3. show-end-of-lines.  In the vi editor, they have a function where you can
display the end-of-lines on the screen in the form:

This is a line$
This is a line with trailing spaces and tabs  	$
The following line is empty:$
$
The following line has spaces and tabs:$
  	$
Another silly line.$

The dollar sign ('$') serves as a verbose indicator of where the end-of-line
marker is on the line.  This would be handy for editting Makefiles.


Thank you

             paulr       (Paul Reger)
     Sequent Computer Systems  Beaverton, OR.
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