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In article <9102161718.AA04983@genome.wi.edu>, joe@GENOME.WI.EDU (Steve Lincoln) writes:
> 2) Epoch doesn't seem to deal well with Motif's point to type or click to type 
> modes. How do I turn off epoch's auto-raise feature, etc?  Are there any bugs 
> with epoch specifically when used under DECWindows or Motif which I should 
> know about.

(setq auto-raise-screen nil) ; turn off Epoch auto-raise

There are no known Motif specific bugs with Epoch, but we suspsect a
bug with mwm that causes the minibuffer to be too large in some case.

> 3) Where do I get the software necessary to get menus to work on this kind of 
> system. (e.g. xmenu, and the epoch support for it).  The issue of course is 
> the degree of compatibility (or lack thereof) between DECWindows and real X11.

Epoch itself doesn't provide menu support. There exist add on packages
for that, one using Epoch screens, and another using a seperate
standalone program.

> 4) Customization: Does the minibuffer have to be in a separate window?  How do 
> I set icons, the window's titlebars, etc.

Yes, the minibuffer must be in a seperate window. You can set the
window title with (title "New screen title") and the icon name with
(icon-name "Icon name").

> 5) Has anyone considered or tried adding scrollbars or pulldown menus to 
> epoch, e.g. to help make epoch a very friendly editor for Unix-phobes.  

We've considered it, but have no plans to implement scroll bars. We
are working on some tools for drop down menus.

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Epoch Development Team   
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