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From: jgy@opus.ATT.COM (John Young)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Sections in Gnu Emacs Buffers?
Summary: more display options
Message-ID: <75@opus.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 89 02:39:42 GMT
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In article <50744@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
> In article <779@ethz.UUCP>, ceb@ethz.UUCP (Charles Buckley) writes:
> > 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,
> > 
> > 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?

While you're at that, how about adding hooks/variables so that different
highlighting capabilities can be used, such as inverse video for the
mode-line, underline for the region between point and mark, etc..

If multiple intervals and or regions become a reality does this mean
a function "highlight-regexp" could be written to "mark" all occurances
of "regexp" so that whenever they are displayed they are highlighted.

One of the purposes of intervals seems to be to make providing "forms"
with various "field types" and input checking a reality, if this is
true it should also be possible to "highlight" these fields.
Enough rambling!