4 The Editor
Perhaps the most obvious difference is the way the FreeLisp editor highlights areas used for cutting, copying, and pasting. In conventional Windows editors the area that is affected by these operations can be off the screen. For example, you can usually drag the cursor over some text and then scroll this out of view using the scroll bar.
However, in the FreeLisp editor the cursor is always kept on the screen. This means a proportion of the screen would nearly always be highlighted. To avoid this unpleasant visual effect the FreeLisp editor does not always highlight the current region.
If at any point you wish to remind yourself of the current region then pressing C-x
C-x
will exchange the positions of the cursor and the other end of the region, highlighting the region in the process. Repeating the operation will exchange these two points again, leaving you in the same state as before, but with the current region highlighted.
You can turn off the highlighting of the current region by using C-g
.
FreeLisp highlights the current region using a bold font, instead of the more conventional inverse video, to remind you that the way the region works is slightly different from more conventional Windows editors.
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