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- From: douglis@MITL.COM (Fred Douglis)
- Subject: Re: looking for Epoch goodies, e.g. screens for completion & compilation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.214959.1419@MITL.COM>
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- Organization: Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:49:59 GMT
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- scotth@oldman.com (Scott Herzinger) writes:
-
- >I've recently started using Epoch 4.2. I'm in search of Epoch goodies
- >that augment conventional Emacs functionality that I use often. Are
- >there any recommended packages?
-
- Ditto.
-
- >At the moment, I'd particularly like things like name completion and
- >M-x compile/grep to pop up screens instead of Emacs windows. I've
- >seen the Epoch-specific elisp descriptions in the FAQ, and didn't see
- >anything specifically mentioned that addresses this functionality.
-
- Yes, the same thing occurred to me. What I'd like is for just about
- everything that currently splits a screen into multiple windows to instead
- create new X windows of appropriate size. Plus of course new ones could
- be created that would overlap or go someplace else or whatever.
-
- The real reason I want this is because it seems that if I try to make a
- particular buffer have its own background color, this causes only the
- places where characters are displayed to have that background. So I might
- have
-
- yyyyyyyyyyyybbbbbbbbbbb
- yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybbbbbbb
- yyyyyybbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
- bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
-
- Where "y" and "b" stand for two different background colors.
-
- If I make the buffer have its own screen I can set the background for
- the whole screen, which works quite nicely.
-
- Anyway, if anyone has a fix for epoch 4.2 for the background styles,
- or a way to define window-related operations to deal with screens
- instead, please post or send me a copy as well as the first author.
-
-
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