Re: Updated Emacs package, syntax highlighting, new name

"Markus Hoenicka" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Smith writes:
 > Actually, I wonder whether the default in Emacs should be something
 > other than the "screen" output -- maybe RIS? We'd be distributing the
 > refdb-mode.el package along with the ris.el package anyway, and to my
 > eyes at least, that package give a nice, readable, syntax-highlighted
 > view of the data.
 > 

As always, there won't be a real consensus on this. Could this be made
user-configurable?

 > But that is all said without having much insight in the use cases for
 > the various output types for the data. I guess I can see the advantages
 > of the 'screen' format when you're looking at the data in a shell, but
 > what's the value of viewing it that way in Emacs? Just the brevity?
 > 

The screen output was indeed designed for viewing the results in an
xterm.

regards,
Markus

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