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From: pierson@mist (Dan Pierson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Sections in Gnu Emacs Buffers?
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Date: 16 Feb 89 14:03:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)

In article <50744@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, Ram-Ashwin@cs (Ashwin Ram) writes:
>On the other hand, inverse-video is very useful when you're selecting regions

Two levels of standout mode are even more useful.  For example, in the
Xerox lispm's SEdit, the seleted region is inverse videod and the
previously selected region is underlined.  This (plus the obvious
commands) makes it very easy to swap two non-contiguous sections of
text or code.

When the time (now?) comes to finally teach Emacs to handle standout
displays, it would be a mistake to design in a restriction to only a
single level.
-- 
                                            dan

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