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  >   Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 14:16 PDT
  >   From: Jeff Van Baalen <vanbaale@tc.pw.com>
  >
  >   Has anybody written the code to highlight the current region as Symbolic's
  >   Zmacs does?  If so would you be willing to share it?
  >
  >   Thanks in advance,
  >   Jeff
  >   ----

Some time ago I wrote a package called sky-mouse (save/kill/yank
mouse) that does something like this.  It works under Epoch and also
under plain Emacs (with x-mouse.el).  The code is on our ftp host
icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu. There is a tar file under pub/ai/sky-mouse. Cf.
the readme file there. It implements "What-you-mark-is-the-region" and
some other "thing"s you may like in Zmacs. However regions are not
always marked (for instance C-SPACE M-f does not mark the region) and
highlighting may get out of sync with regions (e.g. M-f could move the
cursor without extending the region marking). Rather than changing
many basic region related functions it seems to me region highlighting
could better be handled in the redisplay routine (perhaps in Epoch 4 or
Emacs 19?).

A slightly improved version (including some patches sent to me by
others) is also contained in the sather distribution (a new
Eiffel-like OO language). I will not get around soon to unbundle and
package just the sky-mouse part. You would have to untar the
distribution extract some files (contact me for a list if you care)
and do some byte-compiles manually. The sather distribution is on the
same host under pub/sather.

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Heinz W. Schmidt                                     hws@icsi.berkeley.edu
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