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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: selective-display feature?
Message-ID: <12998@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 5 Aug 88 07:31:23 GMT
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In article <12789@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@garnet (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>>[vip-mode requests:] There is no indication of end of buffer,

>You mean the "~"s?  Oh wow, I forgot about them.  [complicated method]

There would be a simpler way, if an elementary(?) addition were made
to Emacs.  Something like (setq selective-display-ellipses STRING) to
mean use STRING to choose the selective display indication.  In this
case STRING would be a string of alternating tildes and newlines.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720