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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Sections in Gnu Emacs Buffers?
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Date: 17 Feb 89 11:07:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: pierson@mist (Dan Pierson)

In article <4919@xenna.Encore.COM>, pierson@mist (Dan Pierson) writes:
>Two levels of standout mode are even more useful.

How about four? Six? Sun's TextEdit model has four stand out modes:

	Reverse Video Black 	=> primary selection
	Reverse Video Grey 	=> primary selection, marked for delete
	Underline		=> secondary selection
	Underline + Grey 	=> secondary selection, marked for delete

Maybe have standout be color selectable?

I have also seen NeWS windows draw a bounding box around selections marked.

Please, no arguments about whether these are the Right Thing to Do.
If GNUemacs had several stand-out modes, we could customize it
to do whatever we like as individuals.

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	Bruce G. Barnett 	barnett@ge-crd.ARPA, barnett@steinmetz.ge.com
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