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Epoch, DECWindows, OSF/Motif, and the meaning of life...

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From: Steve Lincoln
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 1991 18:27
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Im'm a newcommer, so please forgive my ignorance...

I have just gotten epoch 3.2 compiled and running (sort of) under Ultrix/UWS 
4.1 on my DECStation 3100, running DEC's X11 with DEC's OSF/Motif 1.0 
"Developer's Release" (we will soon have 1.1 running).  I have lots of 
questions:

1) Is there anyone else out there using this configuration?

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.

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.

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

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.  
Alternatively, does anyone know of any other good non-proprietary software for 
doing this?  (I think the programmers here would rather loose an arm than stop 
using emacs, of course).

Thanks in advance,
Steve

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