Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!irie.ais.org!mjo From: mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: select region in emacs (was: Re: New Version of CRISP Editor Available) Message-ID: <1991Apr5.100607.21569@engin.umich.edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 10:06:07 GMT References: Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Reply-To: mjo@ais.org Organization: Artificial Intelligence Society Lines: 19 In article davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (John E. Davis) writes: :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!) However, emacs should have this feature for those that want it. I wouldn't go overboard trying to defend lack-of-functionality, especially from a text editor that doubles as a newsreader and palys Tower of Hanoi! ==== Mike O'Connor