Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!davis From: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: select region in emacs (was: Re: New Version of CRISP Editor Available) Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 91 08:01:39 GMT Sender: news@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (John E. Davis) Organization: "Dept. of Physics, The Ohio State University" Lines: 32 In-reply-to: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de's message of 4 Apr 91 23:18:20 GMT In some article, someone wrote: [ ...a bunch of (invalid) stuff about why emacs is no good...] What finally convinced me not to use EMACS is that it does NOT distinguish the selected region on the screen in any way. Yes, folks, incredible as it seems, the selected region looks just the same as the rest of the text. It isn't in reverse video, or underlined, or blinking, or a different color. So how do you know where it is? The EMACS manual says you are supposed to *remember*. Ok this emacs cannot do. Everything else you wrote, emacs can be made to do. The best you can do is: ^X^X to see where the mark is, then ^X^X to return where you were (exchange-point-and-mark). Actually I am happy that emacs does not highlight the region for me. This is because I work fromn home alot at 1200 baud. To highlight a region requires redrawing the whole region then to un-highlight it requires redrawing it again. Using ^X^X twice is probably alot faster than this. My time is too valuable for the unecessary screen redrawing. (saving time is why I prefer emacs in the first place!) -- John bitnet: davis@ohstpy internet: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu