Xref: utzoo comp.lang.lisp:590 comp.emacs:2409 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!imagine!pawl21.pawl.rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@pawl21.pawl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.emacs Subject: Re: Fortran Message-ID: <145@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 15 Dec 87 16:31:48 GMT References: <332@siemens.UUCP> <453@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <13434@think.UUCP> <13276@beta.UUCP> <638@umbc3.UMD.EDU> Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: rodney@pawl21.pawl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck) Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab - Troy, NY Lines: 14 In article <638@umbc3.UMD.EDU> alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain) writes: >In article <13276@beta.UUCP> dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) writes: >>> What universal law says that an Emacs-style editor can't highlight >>> things or use a mouse? > >Has anyone ever tried to implement highlighting in GNU? I would REALLY like >If anyone has ever tried, I would appreciatteany leads to a starting point, The Symbolics Lisp machines have an editor called Zmacs which supports highlighting and mouse control. Perhaps you should find a Symbolics machine and mimic it. I think that mousing and highlighting would be great. I'm using a sun 3/50 right now. Rodney