Bugs, Revert, and Killing Processes

There will always be some bugs or problems in a sophisticated system of typesetting like Emacs/Epoch. Problems occur more frequently if the user has multiple applications of Epoch running in different windows. However, many routine applications have multiple files in buffers loaded in the same window. We advise against multiple applications of Epoch running in different windows, except in simple cases where the user wants to open a window and copy a portion of a file in a different directory and paste it into his active application. The user should then close the secondary Epoch window after the copy with the usual top of the file right mouse button choice of quit in the Window. Occasionally, user mistakes completely confuse the system and Epoch must be Quit and restarted. Even here, the user may have to completely exit and then log in again to properly reinitialize.

If the user ever sees the question beginning Revert Buffer ...? in the miniwindow at the bottom of his Epoch screen, he should answer yes. A no answer will freeze up the system with a continuously ringing bell. We have not found a way to unlock the system in this case. The user must go to another machine, log into the ringing machine and then kill the Epoch processes.

To check for processes, go to a command tool window and do: ps -aux | grep -v root

The command shows all processes except those owned by root. The second column of the process list is the process ID number.

To kill one or more (two here) processes do: kill -9 idnumber1 idnumber2

Killing the process named olwm will kill open windows.