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From: jimb@tekcbi.UUCP (Jim Boland)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: scroll-region
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 14:39:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 14:39:10 1985
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1.  Is there a way to set the scroll region in Emacs?
    For instance, The DEC editor EDT allows you to set the
    scroll region to what you  want.  This is done with
    a SET SCROLL 4:16.   This sets the region to between lines
    4 and 16.  Can this be done in emacs?  How?

2.  How (in .emacs_pro) can you set the default buffer to
    "main" and then have the file you are editing be automatically
    be placed into that buffer rather than having a buffer with the
    name of your file as the name of the buffer.  I know you can do this
    once you are in the edit mode, but how do you do it automatically?

3.  Is there a way (using a defun) to highlight selected regions?
    As in EDT, when you select a region (keypad . ) moving the cursor
    causes the text you have gone over to be reveres videoed (sp) until
    you cut it to some buffer or whatever.  Can this be accomplished
    in emacs.  I have tried using functions that when I set-mark, I tell
    the terminal to go to reverse video and when I cut-to-buffer I tell
    it to go to normal video.  But it does not work.  If I go to text
    off the screen and cause the screen to scroll, the new text sort of
    gets reversed in some strange way but that is not what I am after.

Yes, I am sortof making my emacs resemble EDT's keypad strokes.
Please excuse if this is all elementary to some, but we are severely
lacking in documentation other than the 1983 Gosling @CMU writeup.
Sometimes it is a little incomplete, also
 jimb@tekcbi