hans@acsu.buffalo.edu (Hans Chalupsky) (11/30/90)
In article <502@zok.UUCP> mark@zok.UUCP (Mark W. Snitily) writes: >I've just installed epoch 3.2 and am very pleased with the results. (For >those of you who haven't heard of epoch, it's GNU emacs 18.55 with a *good* >X11 interface.) Same here (very pleased, that is). >I seem to recall a discussion on the net about a GNU emacs 19.0. That was >some time ago. It was suppose to be emacs 18.x but with a good X11 interface. >Having played with epoch now, it seems to have achieved exactly the same goal. >Also, seeing Richard Stallman's name in epoch's "ChangeLog" file makes me >wonder. > >Is epoch 3.2 really a beta (or alpha) of the long awaited emacs 19.0? >Or, is epoch a totally separate entity that should be added to the >"yet another" editor list? > >-- Mark I wonder about that too. Especially, will it be worth putting a lot of effort into Epoch right now that will have to be put again into Emacs19 when it comes out (e.g., writing e-lisp code to make proper use of all the new features Epoch provides)? Can some `authority' shed light on the policies behind the development, possible coexistence or merging of Epoch-3.2 and Emacs19? Hans hans@cs.buffalo.edu Hans Chalupsky, Dept. of CS, 226 Bell Hall, SUNY@Buffalo, NY 14260.