Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!BOULDER.COLORADO.EDU!jbw%uswest.com From: jbw%uswest.com@BOULDER.COLORADO.EDU (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Documentation bug ?? / etc. Message-ID: <8906251700.AA07721@maverick.uswest.com> Date: 25 Jun 89 17:00:48 GMT References: <8906231731.AA06898@ogccse.OGC.EDU> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 33 Paul Reger writes: > 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. Well, it can be done. I've seen two different ways of doing this, but both have disadvantages. The first way involves deleting and reinserting the region, so it gets into the buffer's undo information, which reduces how much you can undo. The second way involves narrowing and then widening the displayed portion of the buffer, and thus involves redrawing large portions of the screen. Both ways have the problem that if you scroll back and forth, the highlighting (reverse video) is lost. I agree with you that support for this would be very helpful. > 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. Send me mail and I'll find my copy of the package which does this for you. Everything you need for this is already in GNU Emacs. > 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: Put me down for supporting this one also (not that I'd know how to implement it without breaking everything else). -- Joe Wells jbw%ketchum.uswest.com@boulder.colorado.edu