Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 13:15:26 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
 

That’s one reason I really miss the 3290. There was an optional
full-width dotted underscore line that could follow the cursor up and
down. It made it easy to read across a full 160-column line. I haven’t
found an editor that will do that.

 
Found this package for Emacs
<https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/hl-line.el>
... does that help?
 

Thanks. So far I’ve assiduously avoided emacs, but I might have to learn
it. Multics has emacs or a couple of line editors like edlin.

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Pete