On 24 Jun 2000 10:42:34 -0400, Warp wrote:
>Steve <sjl### [at] ndirectcouk> wrote:
>: No not a gui but a straightforward editor a la EDIT.EXE in dos (where 
>: SHIFT+ARROWKEY marks text and SHIFT+INSERT copies it etc).
>
>  You can configure emacs to do this (actually I have it configured that way).
>
>  Actually it's very simple. Add this line to your .emacs:
>
>(pc-selection-mode)
>
>  It may only work in X, though (vt100 emulation does not support
>shift+cursors).
>  You can also configure emacs to do a lot more (but it's far from easy).

Thanks this works, shame it won't work in an xterm, but maybe I can
make some changes to the way my xterms (rxvt) is set up to allow it to 
work, emacs could well be my new editor of choice. 

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