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From: dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Fortran
Summary: On the subject of paren-checking and highlighting...
Message-ID: <13276@beta.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 87 20:49:59 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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> 
> What universal law says that an Emacs-style editor can't highlight
> things or use a mouse?  Zmacs, the Emacs-style editor on MIT-derived
> Lisp Machines, does both of these things.  When you invoke a command
> that marks a region, the region is underlined (there is an option to
> use inverse video instead of underlining). 
>

Gnu EMACS on a Sun also has a mouse interface, but I think the 
highlighting (there currently is none that I know of) and paren
checking could be improved. Zmacs has an execllent paren checker that causes
the backward matching paren to blink, showing the matching paren at (just
before) the current cursor position. 

If (when) Gnu is given better paren checking capabilities and mouse-selectable
region highlighting I will be quite happy to let my old Symbolics 3600 
gather dust in the corner while I use Gnu with KEE and LISP on a Sun.

--Doug
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			Doug Roberts
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