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From: kaplan@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: What is epoch ?
Message-ID: <4300066@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 90 17:38:28 GMT
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Epoch is a version of Gnu emacs with some neat  additional features,
detailed below.    (Epoch runs ONLY under X windows (X11R3 or R4)

1.  Multiple x-windows, ability to hop among them by keyboard or mouse,
    ability to have multiple emacs-windows in an x-window (we call them screens
    to avoid confusion)

2.  ability to set features like font, color, cursor glyph, etc on a per-
    screen (x-window) basis.

3.  buttons:  the ability to give a region of text a color attribute and
    some user-defined hooks.  This allows you to put "buttons" in the
    text of a buffer and on key-events do things like jump to other
    buffers, etc.  It provides the foundation for hypertext-like functionality.
   

To get epoch, you can ftp it from cs.uiuc.edu by anon ftp, in directory
pub/epoch-files/epoch/<look here for the goodies>.  Right now we are up
to version 3.0, but 3.1 will be out towards the end of this week.

It is also available on tape (this is new).

There is an epoch mailing list, addresses

epoch@cs.uiuc.edu
uunet!uiucdcs!epoch

to join, find out about tapes, etc, send mail to epoch-request at the above
address.

Simon Kaplan			University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu)
(uunet!uiucdcs!kaplan)