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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
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 20:47:24 1984
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> = 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?
-- 
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