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> From: "kacovert@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu" 22-DEC-1992 01:19:04.64
>
> The selection should be in bold rather than inverse video.  The
> selection also looks like it's selecting lines, but trust me, it'll
> work (BTW, why doesn't box selects highlight boxes rather than lines -
> this doesn't make sense to me.)  Then issue the cut command.
>
>                              Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
>                              Miami Computing and Information Services


          EVE's highlighting in character mode rather than block mode
          is probably due to a couple of things:

            1.  The TPU engine underneath EVE does not currently
                support blocks.  The block mode work is  done pretty
                much by EVE, which does not have any display control.

            2.  The difficulty of highlighting a block is pretty
                significant, especially if you do it in EVE.

          Imagine a block selection that's 100 lines high and 10
          characters wide.  Your cursor is in the lower righ-hand
          corner.  Now, move the cursor one character to the right.
          The EVE code would have to update all the ranges in a 100
          range array.   Now, imagine you've decided to hold the
          cursor down for 3 seconds, engaging auto-repeat for 2.5 of
          them....

          There's also the problem of what to do (in the display) if
          some lines are not as wide as the selected range.

                                                Freely hypothesizing,

                                                -Tom Williams
                                                 Computer Center Manager
                                                 Alderson-Broaddus College
                                                 WILLIAMS@AB.WVNET.EDU