Subj:	Epoch 3.2

Version 3.2 of Epoch, GNU Emacs for the X windowing system has been formally
released.

Epoch is a modified version of GNU Emacs 18.55 with several major enhancements:

	o Multiple X-Window support
	o Marked and Attributed regions of text
	o Support for multiple fonts (fixed size), underlining, and
	  stipple patterns.
	o Asynchronous communication with other X-Clients (usually the
	  window manager)
	o Mouse-dragging with highlighting to support mouse-based cut-and-
	  paste.
	o Access to raw X-Window objects

	
README for Epoch version 3.2 

Major changes:

+ Epoch elisp code is now dumped when Epoch is built.  See loadup.el in
lisp directory for which files are dumped.  dot.emacs should load any 
elisp files which are not dumped.  (Or if memory prohibits dumping files)

+ Epoch now relies on some of the standard lisp files being different
from the standard distribution. These are
	@ version.el : Changed to have "Epoch" in messages
	@ startup.el : If running Epoch, forces screens 0,1 to be mapped
	               (unless inhibit-initial-screen-mapping is non-nil)
	@ time.el : display-time-filter now supports hooks in variable
	            display-time-hook.
	@ loadup.el : Dumps under the name "epoch" instead of "emacs"
	@ loaddefs.el : Changed to have "Epoch" in the mode line
	@ backquote.el : Fixed bug with '(@, )'.

Only version.el, loaddefs.el, and loadup.el are incompatible with
GNU-Emacs 18.55, and these only in that certain messages/displays will
say "Epoch" instead of "Emacs".

+ epoch::create-screen no longer maps screens upon creation. This is a
critical difference. This is necessary so that property manipulations can be
performed on the screen before it is mapped. The changes in startup.el are
primarily to make sure that the first edit screen is mapped if for some
reason the init file gets an error. Notice also that for some of the
advertised features to work, you must use create-screen, so that the correct
properties are set (or take care of them yourself).

+ Event handling is completely different. Read the manual, look at the code.

+ Mouse handling is completely different. You can still use the standard
Emacs code if you want, but the new version is really a _lot_ better. Read
the manual.

+ Handling of attributes is completely different.  The complete context for
displaying text (i.e. foreground/background color, stipple pattern, font, 
underline color, etc.) is now specified in a "style" structure.  Attribute
tables are now references to styles.  Read the manual for further details.

+ Buttons are completely different. Read the manual. There is code in
fix3-2.el in the distribution to change (most of the) vector button code to
the new format. The new style is based on Denys Duchier's version. Also,
read-only buttons are supported now.

+ The Epoch manual is now in Info format.
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+ X Properties work better (more general). In particular, X resources
can be used, and also properties can be set to lists/arrays of values
(c.f. WM_PROTOCOLS).