michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt) (01/12/90)
I saw a few people speaking about epoch and had somehow the feeling,
that ist might be a good idea to have it. Could somebody tell me more
about it. Perhaps send the README or man page or similar. And how or
where to get it, of course.
Michael
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Michael Schmidt, FB 17, Uni-GH Paderborn, Warburgerstr. 100,
D-4790 Paderborn, West Germany
Mail: michael@pbinfo.UUCP or michael@uni-paderborn.dekaplan@m.cs.uiuc.edu (01/16/90)
Epoch is a version of Gnu emacs with some neat additional features,
detailed below. (Epoch runs ONLY under X windows (X11R3 or R4)
1. Multiple x-windows, ability to hop among them by keyboard or mouse,
ability to have multiple emacs-windows in an x-window (we call them screens
to avoid confusion)
2. ability to set features like font, color, cursor glyph, etc on a per-
screen (x-window) basis.
3. buttons: the ability to give a region of text a color attribute and
some user-defined hooks. This allows you to put "buttons" in the
text of a buffer and on key-events do things like jump to other
buffers, etc. It provides the foundation for hypertext-like functionality.
To get epoch, you can ftp it from cs.uiuc.edu by anon ftp, in directory
pub/epoch-files/epoch/<look here for the goodies>. Right now we are up
to version 3.0, but 3.1 will be out towards the end of this week.
It is also available on tape (this is new).
There is an epoch mailing list, addresses
epoch@cs.uiuc.edu
uunet!uiucdcs!epoch
to join, find out about tapes, etc, send mail to epoch-request at the above
address.
Simon Kaplan University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu)
(uunet!uiucdcs!kaplan)