Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!udc!kcollett From: kcollett@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Kendall Collett) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: real X windows support from emacs Message-ID: Date: 1 Jun 90 17:31:59 GMT References: <90May31.100818edt.14538@neat.cs.toronto.edu> Sender: netnews@urbana.mcd.mot.com Organization: Motorola MCD, Urbana Design Center Lines: 20 In-reply-to: meissner@osf.org's message of 31 May 90 19:07:37 GMT >>>>> On 31 May 90 19:07:37 GMT, meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) said: meissner> Epoch certainly has h) though it does it by adding a new abstration meissner> called 'screens', to which one or more emacs buffers can be displayed, meissner> and they add a bunch of new keystrokes like \C-Z 4 \C-f, find file in meissner> other screen. I believe it has hooks for a), b), c), and possibly d) meissner> and e). I've used epoch for a few months, so I can attest that having (h) is a big plus. I do, however, have one problem with multiple windows under emacs (at least as implemented in epoch) -- there is still only one execution thread for all of the windows. This means that when I start retrieving 300+ articles from comp.windows.x in one window, I cannot do anything in parallel in the any of the other windows because emacs/epoch is busy. -- Kendall Collett kcollett@urbana.mcd.mot.com uiucuxc!udc!kcollett Motorola MCD, Urbana Design Center DISCLAIMER: In expressing the above 1101 East University Avenue opinion, I am in no way acting as a Urbana, IL 61801 representative of Motorola, Inc.