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- From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
- Subject: **** Epoch is here ****
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.210312.13363@athena.mit.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:03:12 GMT
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- I'm happy to report that I have successfully ported Epoch to linux.
- If you do not know what epoch is, the quote from the FAQ at the end of
- this posting will give you an idea. I could upload it now. However, I feel
- that this is pointless since gcc2.2.2d will be released soon, so I think I'm
- going to wait until I compile it with the new gcc when it is released.
- (Unless somebody really want to try it right now, let me know).
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- I have been using Epoch for about a day now with no problems. I ran
- on it dired, compile, the shell, and vm (View Mail) and they were all OK.
-
- --------- Quote from the Epoch FAQ ---------
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- A-1: What is Epoch?
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- Epoch is GNU Emacs on steroids: an adaptation of GNU Emacs with lots
- of additional support for features made possible by the X11 windowing
- system. These features include multiple editing windows, arbitrary
- colors and fonts (fixed-width and proportional), selectable zones per
- buffer with arbitrary display styles (font, color, underline, stipple,
- pixmap), an optional separate minibuffer window, improved keyboard and
- mouse handling, full 8-bit character set support, and more.
-
- Epoch, like GNU Emacs, is very customizable; much of this FAQ
- describes ways to customize Epoch for specific purposes.
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- /M. Saggaf
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