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From: rodney@pawl21.pawl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Fortran
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Date: 15 Dec 87 16:31:48 GMT
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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