Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!husc6!encore!pierson From: pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Epoch 3.2 and Emacs 19.0 Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 17:47:04 GMT References: <502@zok.UUCP> Sender: news@Encore.COM Followup-To: comp.windows.x Organization: Encore Computer Corporation Lines: 21 In-reply-to: mark@zok.UUCP's message of 29 Nov 90 08:06:44 GMT In article <502@zok.UUCP> mark@zok.UUCP (Mark W. Snitily) writes: Is epoch 3.2 really a beta (or alpha) of the long awaited emacs 19.0? Or, is epoch a totally separate entity that should be added to the "yet another" editor list? Sort of both. It's a separate modification of Gnu Emacs by Simon Kaplan's group at the University of Illinois but the V19 authors have suggested that people use it as a sort of "conceptual beta-test" of many of the V19 features. Not all Epoch features can be supported in an editor that still wants to work in non-X11 environments; the Epoch authors have said that they plan to eventually port Epoch to V19, using as many stock V19 features as possible. -- dan In real life: Dan Pierson, Encore Computer Corporation, Research UUCP: {talcott,linus,necis,decvax}!encore!pierson Internet: pierson@encore.com