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Article #1020New user questions
From: Bryan Cheung
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:28
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:28
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Hi,
I have just begun experimenting with epoch, and I have several
newbie type questions. Any and all responses from all the epoch
fans out there are greatly appreciated, preferably via e-mail.
The questions:
1) Is there an FAQ and where is it?
2) How much value do the epoch GUI extenstions add to the
excellent development environment provided by emacs?
From my perspective, one of the most important features
of the GNU emacs system is that you can make incredible
things happen by typing a few keystrokes. For those of us
who like to hammer the keyboard like maniacs, anything which
causes us to remove our hands from the keyboard (like
manipulating the mouse) SLOWS US DOWN.
3) Is it possible to use arbitrary text colors for arbitrary
portions of a single epoch buffer? Such a feature would
be AWESOME if it could be used to modify C-mode such that
C language keywords, punctuation, constants, etc. could be
automagically assigned their own arbitrary colors. (Has
this already been done?).
4) For all those of you who used emacs for many years and then
migrated to epoch what were your motivations and expectations,
how well were your expectations met, and what slick epoch
functionality made you stick with epoch?
Thanks in advance,
-- Bryan Cheung
cheung@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
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