🚀 go-pugleaf

A number of us at IMS have been using Epoch for close to a year now
and we are very happy with it.  It would be very difficult to go back
to Emacs at this point!  I've got a few suggestions for future
releases of Epoch.


1)  Mouse double click:
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I notice that when I use other applications (like xterm, xedit or
FrameMaker), I can double click with the mouse to mark a word.  I
can't do this in Epoch (although my fingers keep trying).

What would it take to add this function?  Does anyone have any Elisp
code to get me started?  How about making a wide spread feature like
this standard in a future release?


2) Locating Resource Definitions:
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For user's local application-specific resource files we used to set
XAPPLRESDIR.  This works fine for our Motif users, but the Openwin
startup script resets this environment variable.  So, we have switched
to setting XUSERFILESEARCHPATH as follows:

    setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH $home/App-Defaults/%N

This now works fine under both window managers, but it is ignored by
Epoch.

It would be nice if Epoch would implement the same resource file
search algorithm as described in the XtResolvePathname() library
routine (why not use this routine?).  (You can also look at
mit/lib/Xt/Initialize.c for information on this.)


3) Menu Bar:
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It would sure be nice to add a menu bar to some future release of
Epoch.  It would really help to get new users started with the "right
editor".  Running GWM as suggested in the Epoch documentation is not
realistic in many cases.


Anyway, thanks for continuing the work on Epoch.  It is a big help to
us.


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Gerd Hoeren
  Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc.
  Voice: (503) 626-7117
  Fax:   (503) 644-6969
  Email: gerdh@ims.com
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