hws@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Heinz Schmidt) (12/11/90)
Archive-name: emacs/epoch/sky-mouse/1990-12-10 Archive-directory: icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu:/pub/ai/sky-mouse/ [128.32.201.55] Original-posting-by: hws@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Heinz Schmidt) Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) To those interested in the Sky mouse package, The sky-mouse package is now available via anonymous ftp from icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu under pub/ai/sky-mouse. The directory contains a compressed tarfile sky-mouse.tar.Z and the ascii README file (from that tar.Z) if you need to know how to uncompress and untar the tarfile. When you have untar'ed the file, you find an etc/INSTALL file that contains a number of hints and also includes an install command that you may run under Emacs to see what the code wants to have in your .emacs file. The package requires Epoch 3.2 upwards, if you use Epoch, at least this is what the epoch-lisp files tell that the package builds on, but I'm not sure, I am running it on sun4, sparc, SunOS Release 4.1, X11R4, olwm, Epoch 3.2.2 and use it also with GNU Emacs 18.55.1 under other window managers. If you have difficulties to run it or suggestions for improving the package and/or the mouse tutorial, let me know. Enjoy! -- hws PS: Here again a short description for those who missed it the other day and are wondering by now what this is all about: I recently ported a package of mouse commands to run under Epoch. Originally I wrote the commands for Emacs x-mouse. They now run consistently under both systems. The package realizes some functions that I used frequently with the ZMacs editor on Lisp-machines. In particular the mouse save/kill/yank logic and yanking code fragments from one screen to the other in quick succession. The Epoch version is nicer than x-mouse -- of course -- because it support region marking while the feedback under x-mouse is a short jump of the cursor to the other end of the region on which the mouse command is going to work. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heinz W. Schmidt hws@icsi.berkeley.edu International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (415) 642-4274 x175