Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs:2990 comp.emacs:8450 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!brunix!doorknob!wsd From: wsd@cs.brown.edu (Wm. Scott `Spot' Draves) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs Subject: Re: Call for discussion: Emacs and window systems Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 90 16:28:22 GMT References: <1990May25.092932.15008@postmaster@turing.ac.uk> <525@argus.mrcu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Organization: Department of Computer Science, Brown University Lines: 22 In-reply-to: paj@mrcu's message of 5 Jun 90 10:49:40 GMT In article <525@argus.mrcu> paj@mrcu (Paul Johnson) writes: 2) Edit control. For this we want to be able to mark areas of text (ie the Emacs region) using the mouse, and have these areas highlighted. On the one hand, the X style of hilighting (point and drag) is easy to use, but on the other hand it cannot mark a region larger than the screen. [...] This isn't true. The Mac gives us two solutions: 1) shift-click to extend the selected region (this is a bit more general then click-begin, click-end). 2) When click-dragging, if the mouse leaves the text window, it scrolls. 2) Scroll bars (one per Emacs window, may be disabled for certain special buffers). This is something that Emacs lacks. horizontal ones too!! -- Scott Draves Space... The Final Frontier wsd@cs.brown.edu uunet!brunix!wsd