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Date:      18 Nov 2001 21:18:50 -0800
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to modify a "word" definition
Message-ID:  <mvelmv49tx.lmv@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20011118015308.B15285@moo.holy.cow>
References:  <25403662@toto.iv> <15350.28513.309480.583151@guru.mired.org> <20011117140156.A82747@moo.holy.cow> <20011117141351.D63067@blossom.cjclark.org> <5kzo5k4t8e.o5k@localhost.localdomain> <20011118015308.B15285@moo.holy.cow>

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parv <parv_@yahoo.com> writes:

> wrote Gary W. Swearingen thusly...
> 
> > If you want really good control over mousing things (in or out of X),
> > use the XEmacs (or similar) shell mode where you can make the mouse
> > recognize any thing you want and even have it (with ctrl, shift, alt,
> > extra characters, etc.) grab words, lines, URLs, filenames, or whatever,
> > and have it run commands (eg "Netscape -remote", "xemacs --read-only")
> > on the selection. 
> 
> i see only 2 "standard" editing modes in bash and ksh: "emacs" and 
> "vi". no "XEmacs" mode; i suppose you were referring to "emacs"
> mode... which i already have.

The XEmacs editor has a "shell mode" for editing buffers which makes the
editing buffer do terminal emulation.  Its rather like your editing a
terminal log except that when you press "Enter" on the command line, it
sends the command to the shell, etc.  Very much better than standard
terminal emulators (except that the standard version, the most
functional one, doesn't do interactive commands well).

I think it uses the "$SHELL" shell, by default.


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