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Article #1787Re: What is epoch?
From: Simon Kaplan
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1991 02:37
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1991 02:37
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In article <6271@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bill Thompson) writes: What is EPOCH, and how is it different from GNU EMACS? I know I've seen it mentioned occasionally, and have gotten the impression that it's somehow related to EMACS, but I don't know exactly what it is. Bill Thompson Epoch is emacs v18.55 extended to provide various goodies for X-window users. These include: multiple x windows, ability to deal with X property changes and client messages within epoch, the ability to associate attributes with regions of text in a buffer. Attributes include: read-only, color, font (proportional fonts only for now), "data" (can be used for eg for callbacks). It's pretty nice (we think --- but then we're admittedly biased :-). Various packages written from time-to-time by various users allow you to do things like attribute up a lisp or C file a la lisp machines, some people have written hypertext and/or hypertext frontends with it, etc. hope this helps Simon -- Simon Kaplan kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu Department of Computer Science uiucdcs!kaplan@uunet.uu.net University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1304 W. Springfield Ave phone: +1 217 244 0392 Urbana Illinois 61801, USA fax: +1 217 333 3501
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,d6b225ca8951d812 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-09-04 21:56:47 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!iraun1.ira.uka.de!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!m.cs.uiuc.edu!uiucdcs!kaplan From: kaplan@marula.cs.uiuc.edu (Simon Kaplan) Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Subject: Re: What is epoch? Message-ID: <KAPLAN.91Sep4203739@marula.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 5 Sep 91 02:37:39 GMT References: <6271@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of 4 Sep 91 14: 19:11 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: marula.cs.uiuc.edu