Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekchips!tekcrl!brucec From: brucec@phoebus.labs.tek.com (Bruce Cohen;;50-662;LP=A;) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Epoch 3.2 and Emacs 19.0 Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 90 01:11:01 GMT References: <502@zok.UUCP> Sender: news@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM Followup-To: comp.windows.x Organization: Tektronix Inc. Lines: 24 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: > > I've just installed epoch 3.2 and am very pleased with the results. (For > those of you who haven't heard of epoch, it's GNU emacs 18.55 with a *good* > X11 interface.) ... > > Is epoch 3.2 really a beta (or alpha) of the long awaited emacs 19.0? I hope not. Epoch has a lot of useful and interesting features, but it isn't very compatible with previously written emacs packages. This is because of the model of "screens" as orthogonal to emacs buffers and windows. Try for instance, to run gdb-mode or gnus in epoch. I would much prefer a version of emacs which somehow integrates the window and screen model. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speaker-to-managers, aka Bruce Cohen, Computer Research Lab email: brucec@tekchips.labs.tek.com Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc. phone: (503)627-5241 M/S 50-662, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077