Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: underlining and highlighting (emacs, et al) Message-ID: <678@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 20:47:24 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.678 Posted: Wed Dec 5 20:47:24 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:02:26 EST References: <740@ubc-vision.CDN> Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 20 > = Marc Majka - UBC Laboratory for Computational Vision > 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 _\ [ etc ] > 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. Why not use a filter to remove the '_^H'? (eg, PAGER="sed -e 's/_^H//'") Certainly those with slow terminals can do this; does emacs allow you to pipe files to it? -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,sun}!amdahl!gam 37 22'50" N / 122 59'12" W [ This is just me talking. ]