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From: ceb@ethz.UUCP (Charles Buckley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Sections in Gnu Emacs Buffers?
Message-ID: <779@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 18:44:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU's message of 6 Feb 89 05:15:48 GMT

In article <49769@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
   In article <4300032@m.cs.uiuc.edu> liberte@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

   >Stallman and I have just now been discussing interval-local
   >variables.  If we can figure out how to do it, he wants to add it
   >to Emacs.
   If the overhead was low enough, this might be a way to implement
   proper formatting, such as bold mode, underline mode, etc,

   Then you'd have to find a way to display them...

While you're at it, how about simply having a hook to display the text
between the point and the mark in inverse-video, or standout mode, as
the jargoneurs would say?  I started in on this once, but had decided
that this was a job for someone who knew the C-code when duty called
me back to my work.

This feature is implemented on the Symbolics machines Zmacs, and is
enormously useful.  Shouldn't be hard to implement either.