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From: majka@ubc-vision.CDN (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: underlining and highlighting
Message-ID: <740@ubc-vision.CDN>
Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 15:49:53 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.740
Posted: Tue Dec  4 15:49:53 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 18:43:33 EST
Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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[RAID: kills bugs dead]

Backspacing and highlighting may be very clever, but not all of us enjoy it.
Karl Kleinpaste's test lines looked something like this on my screen:

>Test lines:
>_^HT_^Hh_^He_^Hs_^He _^Ht_^Hh_^Hr_^He_^He _^Hl_^Hi_^Hn_^He_^Hs _^Ha_^Hr_^He _\
>^He_^Hn_^Ht_^Hi_^Hr_^He_^Hl_^Hy  _^Hh_^Hi_^Hg_^Hh_^Hl_^Hi_^Hg_^Hh_^Ht_^He_^Hd\
>_^H. _^HI_^Hf _^Hy_^Ho_^Hu _^Hd_^Ho _^Hn_^Ho_^Ht _^Hs_^He_^He _^Ht_^Hh_^He_^H\
>m _^Ha_^Hs _^Hb_^He_^Hi_^Hn_^Hg
>_^Hh_^Hi_^Hg_^Hh_^Hl_^Hi_^Hg_^Hh_^Ht_^He_^Hd_^H,  _^H(_^H1_^H)  _^Hy_^Ho_^Hu_\
>^Hr _^Hn_^He_^Hw_^Hs  _^Hs_^Ho_^Hf_^Ht_^Hw_^Ha_^Hr_^He _^H[_^Ho_^Hr _^Hp_^He_\
>^Hr_^Hh_^Ha_^Hp_^Hs _^Hm_^Ho_^Hr_^He_^H(_^H1_^H)_^H]  _^Hd_^Ho_^He_^Hs  _^Hn_\
>^Ho_^Ht  _^Hs_^Hu_^Hp_^Hp_^Ho_^Hr_^Ht
>_^Hi_^Ht_^H, _^Ho_^Hr _^H(_^H2_^H) _^Hy_^Ho_^Hu_^Hr _^Ht_^He_^Hr_^Hm_^Hc_^Ha_\
>^Hp _^Hd_^He_^Hs_^Hc_^Hr_^Hi_^Hp_^Ht_^Hi_^Ho_^Hn _^Hc_^Ho_^Hn_^Ht_^Ha_^Hi_^Hn\
>_^Hs _^Hn_^Ho _^Hu_^Hs_^H/_^Hu_^He _^Hf_^Hi_^He_^Hl_^Hd_^Hs_^H.

I vote "Nay" to this idea.  I use EMACS to read the news, and there isn't
anything you can say to EMACS to make it recognize this kind of terminal
control.  I don't imagine that those who use hardcopy or slow terminals are
much impressed either.

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Marc Majka - UBC Laboratory for Computational Vision