Message-Id:	<199802061456.QAA19919@ankara.duzen.com.tr>
Comments:	Authenticated sender is <mitch AT ankara DOT duzen DOT com DOT tr>
From:	"S. M. Halloran" <mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>
Organization:	User RFC 822- and 1123-Compliant
To:	qballlives AT aol DOT com (QBallLives)
Date:	Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:57:04 +0200
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: I wish RHIDE did this...
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<19980206115401.GAA19556@ladder03.news.aol.com>

On  6 Feb 98, QBallLives was found to have commented thusly:

> I've used a few different editors - for both text and code...
> 
> I like it when I can highlight an area of text... and then use TAB -> or SHIFT
> + TAB... to move the entire thing to the right or left respectively...
> 
> Having this added to RHIDE is on my wish list!
> 
> Is there a key combo under RHIDE that has this functionality?

This is on my own to-do list, and that is to learn and use EMACS.  
Everyone I know who does programming and has used it never goes back 
to another integrated editor system (they all swear by it and chide 
me for not having yet learned it myself).  Supposedly the DJGPP/Emacs 
implementation does syntax highlighting and other things that RHide 
with its editor does plus a whole lot more (I think that is how the 
claim goes).  My guess is you can define your own key sequences/macro 
actions to do exactly what you want in Emacs, as you described above. 
I use RHide myself now, and don't believe you can do what you 
described above.

I do intend to give Emacs a try, but with abysmally poor Internet 
service in this part of the globe, it took weeks just to ftp (and I 
am using the 'reget' feature of the protocol by the way) the basic 
djgpp and rhide implentations, and getting the extras may take 
longer.

Mitch Halloran
Research (Bio)chemist
Duzen Laboratories Group
Ankara   TURKEY
mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr

other job title:  Sequoia's (dob 12-20-95) daddy

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