Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Actually, it did the regexp thing from the beginning too. I just thought that people would tend not to use too many regexps, since the strings/comments were really 90% of what mattered. Obviously others feel differently. I don't remember, but it's not true that Lucid Emacs didn't have text-properties. I had an all-lisp implementation of text properties built on top of extents; I later translated part of that to C for speed. I don't remember what version this was in, but it was definitely Lucid Emacs. -- Jamie Zawinski jwz(a)mozilla.org http://www.mozilla.org/ (work) jwz(a)jwz.org http://www.jwz.org/ (play)