Thread View: gnu.epoch.misc
2 messages
2 total messages
Started by Bill Thompson
Wed, 04 Sep 1991 14:19
What is epoch?
Author: Bill Thompson
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1991 14:19
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1991 14:19
7 lines
932 bytes
932 bytes
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
Re: What is epoch?
Author: Simon Kaplan
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1991 02:37
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1991 02:37
29 lines
2064 bytes
2064 bytes
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
Thread Navigation
This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.
Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.
Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.
Back to All Threads