Xref: utzoo alt.hypertext:684 comp.text:7686 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uiucdcs!carroll From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.text Subject: Re: Designing Online Documents Message-ID: <1990Dec2.175505.23195@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 2 Dec 90 17:55:05 GMT References: <5514@newton.praxis.co.uk> <1990Dec1.204627.7223@dm.unibo.it> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) Organization: Technophiles Inc. - Engineers with Attitude Lines: 12 We've implemented a very simple version of hyper-text browsing of Emacs Info and the UNIX(c) man pages using Epoch (a multi-X-windowing version of GNU-Emacs). We originally tried having a new X-window for each entry, but that created _way_ too much screen clutter. What we use now is a user configurable limit on the number of screens. When the limit is reached, X-windows are "recycled". Also, multiple displays of the same text is prevented. If you jump to a block that is already displayed, that X-window displaying is pushed to the top instead of opening a new one. -- Alan M. Carroll "It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy, Epoch Development Team I'll get a saw." CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carroll Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com