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scotth@oldman.com (Scott Herzinger) writes:

>I've recently started using Epoch 4.2. I'm in search of Epoch goodies
>that augment conventional Emacs functionality that I use often. Are
>there any recommended packages?

Ditto.

>At the moment, I'd particularly like things like name completion and
>M-x compile/grep to pop up screens instead of Emacs windows.  I've
>seen the Epoch-specific elisp descriptions in the FAQ, and didn't see
>anything specifically mentioned that addresses this functionality.

Yes, the same thing occurred to me.  What I'd like is for just about
everything that currently splits a screen into multiple windows to instead
create new X windows of appropriate size.  Plus of course new ones could
be created that would overlap or go someplace else or whatever.  

The real reason I want this is because it seems that if I try to make a
particular buffer have its own background color, this causes only the
places where characters are displayed to have that background.  So I might
have

	yyyyyyyyyyyybbbbbbbbbbb
	yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybbbbbbb
	yyyyyybbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
	bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

Where "y" and "b" stand for two different background colors.

If I make the buffer have its own screen I can set the background for
the whole screen, which works quite nicely.  

Anyway, if anyone has a fix for epoch 4.2 for the background styles,
or a way to define window-related operations to deal with screens 
instead, please post or send me a copy as well as the first author.


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