rees@dabo.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) (04/19/91)
Archive-name: emacs/epoch/apollo-epoch-patches/1991-04-18
Archive: dabo.citi.umich.edu:epoch-patches.tar.Z [141.211.168.73]
Original-posting-by: rees@dabo.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Original-subject: Re: Questions about epoch.
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
In article <1991Apr18.081840.14744@mack.uit.no>, eystein@hannibal.hsn.no (Eystein Mathisen) writes:
Could somebody tell me the basic features of epoch? As far as I know it is
a window-based, emacs-like editor (I may be wrong).
I broke your 170 column question into two lines; not all of us have such a
huge screen!
It isn't just emacs-like, it is emacs, based on Gnu emacs. It's a multi X
window emacs, with the minibuffer occupying a separate window. It's very
nice, I use it quite a bit.
* Does it run under X on Apollo/Domain SR10.2 OS ?
It doesn't use widgets, it uses the toolkit directly, and works with r3. It
should also work with r4 but I haven't tried this (r4 is upwardly compatible
at the toolkit level, but not at the widget level). I've run it at both
sr10.2 and sr10.3.
* How much RAM is required to have a reasonable response ?
As much as you can afford. At least 12 Mb. Maybe less if you only use X,
and not the DM.
* How many Mbytes of disk-space is required to install it ?
I'm not sure -- maybe about 15 Mb to build it, but considerably less to run
it, maybe 5 Mb. The executable is 1 Mb, info is 1 Mb, man is 1.4, lisp is
about 4, source is 4.
* Is it easy to learn ?
Very easy if you already know emacs.
* Where can I get it (i.e. is it ftp-able or do I have to
purchase it) ?
Epoch is free. Get the file "epoch-patches.tar.Z" by anonymous ftp from
dabo.citi.umich.edu. It contains info on acquiring epoch and some patches
you'll want to run it on your Apollo. This is for epoch 3.2, I don't know
it there is a more recent one. From the epoch blurb:
Epoch is a modified version of GNU Emacs 18.55 with several major enhancements:
o Multiple X-Window support
o Marked and Attributed regions of text
o Support for multiple fonts (fixed size), underlining, and
stipple patterns.
o Asynchronous communication with other X-Clients (usually the
window manager)
o Mouse-dragging with highlighting to support mouse-based cut-and-
paste.
o Access to raw X-Window objects
-- comp.archives file verification
dabo.citi.umich.edu
-rw-r--r-- 1 rees wheel 18350 Feb 9 14:10 epoch-patches.tar.Z
found apollo-epoch-patches ok
dabo.citi.umich.edu:epoch-patches.tar.Z